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Bigger Deals, Bigger Bets: EdTech Venture Funding Trends Continue in 2018

EdNews Daily

EdTech is not unique in this trend of bigger, but less frequent, deals. Total number of deals, however, fell to just over 5,500 private placements, demonstrating the lowest level of deal activity since 2013. We believe the trends witnessed in 2018 will continue in the near future for EdTech and the private placement market as a whole.

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How We Disenfranchise Students of Color

The CoolCatTeacher

They offer over 200 graduate-level courses in 19 different subject areas covering both foundational topics and emerging trends in K-12 education. corridor as an ELA Instructional Coach, Language Arts Department Chair, Secondary Language Arts teacher, professor and compliance specialist.

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Fewer and richer high school grads heading to college: ACE analysis

Bryan Alexander

Key findings: Overall enrollment decline for high school grads: “Since 2008, the percentage of all high school graduates who immediately enroll in college has fallen from 69 percent to 66 percent in 2013.” This also makes more sense of the growing centrality of adult learners in American higher ed.

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Fewer Deals, More Money: U.S. Edtech Funding Rebounds With $1.2 Billion in 2017

Edsurge

In fact, the number of deals has been on a steady downward slope since 2013. These diverging patterns are reflected in the graph below, with the upward trend in funding total (green bars) and downward slope in dealflow (red lines). From a high of 133 angel- and seed-stage deals in 2013, totaling $93.5 Source: EdSurge.

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Higher ed enrollments decline. Again.

Bryan Alexander

This has been doing on since 2013, semester by semester: Another cut: Click to embiggen and actually read the captions. Given the long-term nature of this trend, now, approaching four years, I have to wonder if my gloomy peak higher education scenario has had some degree of forecasting success. In turn 2015 showed a decline of 1.7%

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Higher ed enrollments decline. Again.

Bryan Alexander

This has been doing on since 2013, semester by semester: Another cut: Click to embiggen and actually read the captions. Given the long-term nature of this trend, now, approaching four years, I have to wonder if my gloomy peak higher education scenario has had some degree of forecasting success. In turn 2015 showed a decline of 1.7%

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

“It’s a clear trend,” said Tom Hilliard, a senior fellow at the Center for an Urban Future, which primarily studies economic growth in New York. Hilliard chose 2012 to capture normal test-taking trends before the 2014 exam change. “Every state has fewer people obtaining high school equivalencies. .”