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Send us Fan Mail Kate Eberle Walker is an education industry leader, author, and working mom with more than 20 years of experience managing, advising, acquiring, and investing in high-profile education companies. Currently, Kate is the CEO of Presence , the leading provider of teletherapy services for children with diverse needs.   Previously, Kate was CEO of The Princeton Review and Tutor.com , a...

Send us Fan Mail This Week, we cover: 1. McKinsey Reports on Edtech Five Trends to Watch in the Edtech Industry  2. Owl Ventures   Owl Outcomes Report 3. Online Tutoring Schools across the U.S. have turned to Paper’s online tutoring. Some worry it’s falling short 4. Mental Health Hiring Crisis in Schools: Schools struggle to staff up for youth mental health crisis | AP News Schools struggle to hir...

Send us Fan Mail Younes Mourri is the CEO and Founder of Livetech.ai , a course platform that offers low-cost high quality instructor-led courses in high-demand technical subjects. Younes is the co-creator many of the most popular artificial intelligence MOOCs, including Andrew Ng’s Artifical Intelligence class and Deeplearning.ai’s Natural Language Processing specialization. Younes holds a Master...

Send us Fan Mail Pablo Simko is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Coleap , a marketplace of expert-designed learning communities. Previously, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Elenas, a startup which enables Latin American women to set up online stores from the comfort of their mobile phones and has onboarded 300,000+ entrepreneurs throughout the region, and a Chief of Staff at Polymath Ventures, a...

Send us Fan Mail Evan Hill-Ries is Deputy General Counsel at Amplify , a next-generation curriculum and assessment company serving 10 million students in all 50 states. Responsible for supporting Amplify's K–8 digital curriculum product teams on content issues, development best practices, data privacy, and sales and marketing compliance, as well as company-wide work on corporate and strategic...

Send us Fan Mail On this Week in Edtech: 1) A16z on Edtech Andreessen Horowitz is 'betting heavily' on edtech  2) Layoffs in Tech... Latest layoffs: Companies making cuts Thousands of tech workers were laid off last week 3) ...and Edtech Ed Tech - LayoffsTracker Coursera announces layoffs  Unacademy cuts 10% of jobs Brainly Fires Employees  4) Indian Edtech is Messi BYJU'S unveils L...

Send us Fan Mail On this Week In Edtech, we talk to: Mohammed Almadani, CEO of Classera , a gamified and personalized LMS for emerging markets that raised $40M this week Matthew Rascoff, Vice Provost for Digital Education at Stanford University, and the Stanford Digital Education Team about their Pandemic-Era Online Learning Strategy report We also cover: Election Season in the US Why National Adv...

Send us Fan Mail In this first-of-its-kind episode, Edtech Insiders hosts a debate about the value of Practical vs. Classical Education.  What is the true goal of education? In an age when the talk of the "ROI" of education is everywhere, what is the role of the classical liberal arts ideal of an enlightened and informed citizenry?  Dr. Christian Marty studied history, philosophy and med...

Send us Fan Mail Shawn Young is a co-founder and CEO of Classcraft Studios Inc . He taught 11th grade physics for 9 years, holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and master’s in education from Université de Sherbrooke and is also a seasoned web developer. Shawn is the vice-president of the Edteq Association and is an Ambassador for the Education faculty of University of Sherbrooke.  Classcraft is an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we speak with Joe Connor of Odyssey , which raised a $4.75M dollar seed round this week to help districts and families use flexible education funding sources, like Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) and microgrants. Ben and Alex also discuss: 1) Elections & Education: The Rise of Education Polarization  Is College Worth It? Voters Are Split. ( Five Thirty Eight...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we speak to Claire Chen of Stanford GSB and Brighteye Ventures, who just put out the brand new report, Understanding the Edtech Content Landscape . We also discuss: 1) Video & Tiktok in Education  Revyze is building the TikTok of educational videos ( Techcrunch ) Kids content to remain ad-free on Netflix ( Kidscreen ) Consumers turning from SVOD to AVOD and FA...

Send us Fan Mail Monica Arés is the Head of Immersive Learning at Meta, where she is focused on building an ecosystem that will allow anyone, anywhere to learn and grow in the metaverse. As a Harvard Graduate School of Education alumna, former math educator, curriculum developer, and planetarium director, Monica is at the forefront of skilling the next generation of AR/VR creators and developing p...

Send us Fan Mail Guest Julia Stiglitz, CEO of CoRise and former GSV partner The Massive Lego/Brainpop acquisition Lego Acquires Brainpop - WSJ  Questioning the ROI for Higher Ed Ranking 4,500 Colleges by ROI (2022) How liberal arts colleges are adding work-focused courses students want   Byju's Layoffs/Edtech in India Byju’s cuts 2,500 jobs  Post-Pandemic World Poses Existential Challenge to...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we speak to Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy, co-authors of Running with Robots: The American High School’s Third Century from MIT Press, available at Amazon , Bookshop or wherever you get your books! Greg Toppo is a journalist with more than 25 years of experience, most of it covering education. He spent 15 years as the national education reporter for USA Today and was m...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, guest host Matt Tower of Edtech Thoughts and Alex discuss: 1. The Possible "Second Boom" of the Edtech Investing Market as per Brighteye The evolution of Edtech: Activity in private and public markets | Dealroom.co Edtech’s honeymoon might be over, but expect a second boom | TechCrunch 2) Addictive Game Mechanics Used For Good Opinion | I Make Video Game...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk to some of the standout stars of the StartEd New York Edtech Week conference. Sari, Kide Science (story-based early years learning with platform for educators from Finland!) Nikita Gupta, Symba (internship and apprenticeship management) Matthew Evans, Julius (job training for green economy jobs)  Rachel Jordan, TeachFX (measuring pedagogical 'talk&apo...

Send us Fan Mail In this short episode, we talk to Jamie Poskin, CEO and founder of TeachFX , about TeachFX's new $10mm funding round and how the company is finding a completely new source of classroom data in the 'talk' that happens in both online and in-person classes. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we speak to Shawna Young and Mitchel Resnick of the Scratch Foundation , which runs the largest creative computing community in the world around the Scratch programming language. Recommended Resources: Mitch Resnick and Ken Robinson, Lifelong Kindergarten 2021 Scratch Foundation Annual Report Shawna Young is the Executive Director of the Scratch Foundation.  Befor...

Send us Fan Mail Acky Kamdar is the CEO of Magic EdTech and Magic Finserv. He is a technology entrepreneur and an investor in the fields of digital technologies, blockchain, machine learning, AI and NLP. Acky has over 25 years of experience in Process Management, Technology Solutions, and Outsourcing services at companies like Genpact, Headstrong, Compaq Computers and the HCL group. Currently, he...

Send us Fan Mail Francie Alexander is Chief Research Officer at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and an industry leader in the fields of Early Childhood Education, Literacy, and Intensive Intervention for striving reading and math students. Francie provides inspirational and informative leadership on topics from early and adolescent learning to brain development and its influence on childhood and t...

Send us Fan Mail Greg Bybee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Avela Education and the Co-Founder of PoliScribe .  Greg was an early employee at NovoEd where he ultimately ran every business function from marketing to business development and customer success, and ultimately helped sell the company to Fidelity. Previously, he was a Fellow at NewSchools Venture Fund, the first product manager at Coursera...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Fadl Al Tarzi , Founder & CEO @ Nexford University Online University Nexford will use $8M to plug affordability and relevance gaps in education Topics This Week: Ads in Education The next chapter for Learning on YouTube Roblox jumping into ads in effort to diversify beyond virtual goods SPACS & Aging Unicorns London Looks to Un-Meme the SPAC Market  A Sober Look at...

Send us Fan Mail Shravan Goli has been the Chief Product Officer and Head of Consumer Revenue at Coursera since 2018. Shravan came to Coursera with over 20 years of experience of building products and leading companies. He has built products at Microsoft and Yahoo, been the CEO of Dictionary.com , and was most recently President of tech job marketplace Dice (part of public company DHI Group Inc)....

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Anjuli Gupta , Head of Academic Partnerships @ Outlier.org MasterClass's Co-Founder Takes on the Community College Degree Outlier.org & Golden Gate University Reinvent Affordable College with Degrees+ Topics This Week: LAUSD Cyberattack Los Angeles Schools Hit with Ransomware Attack FBI joins probe into LAUSD cyberattack Learning Loss & Pandemic Recovery Plungi...

Send us Fan Mail Lisa Jiang has a long career at the heights of edtech; she was most recently the head of Remote Learning at Facebook, after 4 years as a senior director of product at New York’s Flatiron School , a leading bootcamp provider and 6 years at Google, where she was a product manager and lead for education for Google Hangouts. Joe Burgess was the first hire at Flatiron School and worked...