EdTech Thoughts Weekend Reading 4/30

Week of 4/24 - 4/30

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This is the first edition of EdTech Thoughts Weekend Reading, a roundup of the Financing activities, People moves, and most important Links from the EdTech ecosystem over the past week.

It is the free, sister publication to the EdTech Thoughts newsletter, which provides in-depth analysis on a selection of these links.

Please feel free to reach out if you have suggestions on how to make this newsletter better!

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Funding / M&A / IPOs

Early Childhood

• TinyTap raises $8.5M

K12

• BPEA EQT acquires IMG Academy for $1.25B

• BrightCHAMPS acquires Metamorphosis Edu

• Raptor Technologies acquires SchoolPass

Higher Ed

• Summer raises $6M

• ASL raises $5M

• Yelo Funding raises $1.2M

Workforce

• Replit raises $100M

• DeepHow raises $14M

• HerKey raises $4M

• Explico raises $1.4M

• Innential raises $1M

• Stemuli acquires Infinity.careers and Oppti

• iLearningEngine to go public via SPAC

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People

• Chief lays off 14% of workforce (43 people)

• Skill-Lync lays off 400

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Links

General

• ChatGPT: Post ASU-GSV reflections on Generative AI

• Applications open for LearnLaunch Breakthrough Accelerator

• ChatGPT replacing the jobs of Kenyan ghostwriters

• Do chatbot tutors work better when they are upbeat and female?

• Instructors can now be EdTech designers

• Someone has to run the fabs: investing in more STEM education

• The end of recommendation letters

Early childhood

• These cities want daycare infrastructure

K12

• “The most dangerous woman in the world is Randi Weingarten”

• The Diffusion of Innovations in K12 EdTech

• Florida plans to design AP Test replacements

• The rise of “equitable grading”

• What happens when teachers run the school

• COVID Chromebooks starting to break

Higher Ed

• USDA as the lender of last resort to rural colleges and universities

• Enrollment declines threaten economic future of college towns

• States setting own NIL rules

• Why super-low college admissions rates can be misleading

• What happened to Harvard + MIT’s big edX profit?

• The number of US adults with some college, no degree keeps rising

• Private College discount rate reaches record high

• Arkansas board rejects deal to acquire University of Phoenix

• Measuring skills gained rather than time in the classroom

Workforce

• Worker shortage halts high-speed internet plan

• You learn the value of a college degree when you live without one

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