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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. NASDAQ: UDMY), and Nerdy, Inc.

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K12 Inc. Names Stuart Udell, Former Catapult Learning Official, as CEO

Marketplace K-12

a favorite target of critics of the for-profit school industry, has named former Catapult Learning official Stuart J. Udell most recently served as CEO of Catapult Learning Inc., On its website, Catapult Learning describes itself as the largest provider of contracted K-12 services in the United States. Udell as its CEO.

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Why Are Coding Bootcamps Going Out of Business?

Hack Education

Within the past week, two well-known and well-established coding bootcamps have announced they’ll be closing their doors: Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc., But some industry observers have suggested we might see more “consolidation” in the coming months. Two closures might not make a trend … yet.

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Education Technology, Betsy DeVos, and the Innovation Gospel

Hack Education

DeVos’s own ties to industry are noteworthy as well, as detailed in the disclosure forms that she had to file as part of her nomination. ” “Her articulated commitment to trying different approaches to teaching and learning may bode well for the field of edtech,” Penn GSE’s Barbara Kurshan said in Forbes.