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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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The 2018 EdSurde Annual Special: Surgecoin, EduWands and Other News Not Fit for Print

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But some companies are jumping the gun. Chegg appears to have borrowed a page from Duolingo’s previous shenanigan for the Osmosis Pillow , which takes “memory foam” to another level. Financial terms were not disclosed, although the entire education operating system was reset as a result of the transaction.

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Why Your Financial Advisor Doesn’t Recommend Edtech Stocks

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Now pretend that it’s late 2011, and we get into a debate about education technology. I’m excited for the industry’s future, and I think we can make money investing in publicly-traded edtech companies. Vanguard index fund which tracks the biggest companies on the NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges. Our Basket of Edtech Stocks: 2U.

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Blackboard Co-Founder: ‘4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed’

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Once upon a time the learning-management system (or LMS) was a new idea. To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. The idea was simple.

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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If you go to startup pitch events, you’ve seen it happen: An entrepreneur says something—something so naïve, egregious and hackneyed—that it makes the investors, along with educators who are now increasingly in the audience, physically cringe. Do you know what company is “Facebook for country X?” Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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(National) Education Politics. The AP interviews US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos , who laments “she didn’t decry racism enough.” ” Via Politico : “New marching orders from Betsy DeVos’ civil rights chief have the Education Department churning through civil rights complaints.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.