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Education Is the New Healthcare, and Other Trends Shaping Edtech Investing

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HolonIQ estimates that global spending on digital education tools surpassed $150 billion last year, and will double by 2025. A recent study by the University of Pennsylvania, only 30 percent of edtech licenses are actually used. Will edtech be caught up in a backlash against ‘big tech’ over data privacy? A group of U.S.

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Remote Learning Is Here to Stay, Raising Concerns About Teacher Training and Data Privacy

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Teachers’ confidence wavers in using edtech for instruction. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. The survey, conducted of RAND’s nationally representative American School District Panel from September through November 2020, included more than 375 K-12 public school districts and charter management organizations. To the tune of $6.2

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Virginia’s Chesapeake Public Schools Partners with Discovery Education to Inspire, Engage, and Empower the District’s 16,300 Elementary Students

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CPS’ strategic plan, Empower 2025 has set the school system on an exciting new path to even higher academic excellence. The Virginia edition of the Discovery Education Science Textbook was approved for statewide use by the Virginia State Board of Education in September of 2020. professional learning.

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Beyond 12 Pairs Mentors With Tech ‘Nudges’ to Help Students Succeed

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At a time when many organizations are slowing their 2020 plans and reassessing their costs and revenues, Bernadotte is doubling down. In 2018, Bernadotte said that Beyond 12 aimed to serve 1 million students annually by 2025. Beyond 12 will now be part of an elite club, an edtech organization led by two women of color.

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ESSER Funding Update

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has provided three ESSER packages for public school districts to spend: ESSER I—approved back in March 2020 for $13.5 ESSER III , the largest amount approved, must be obligated by September 30, 2024, and a spending deadline of January 28, 2025. It served as emergency relief funding to assist public schools amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Portsmouth Public Schools Becomes the Latest Virginia School System to Select Discovery Education to Support Student Academic Achievement

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September 8, 2021) — Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) today announced a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting the district’s five-year strategic plan, Expedition to 2025: Purpose. The district’s strategic plan— Expedition to 2025: Purpose. Discovery Education is the worldwide?edtech?leader leader whose?state-of-the-art?digital

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Susan Gentz, a partner at K20Connect, provided a guide to the types of emergency federal funding that became available during the summer of 2020, as well as some of the issues that districts receiving funding will need to work through. Arati is currently on the edtech advisory board for Central Square Foundation in New Delhi, India.

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