This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 5/6/22

Guest: Ashley Andersen Zantop, CEO & Chairman of Cambium Learning Group

Topics This Week:

1. Google Grow Good?

   • Training now free for 500 workers at every U.S. business

2. Student Debt Cancellation

   • Broad cancellation could backfire

   • We should cancel student debt, but only for some

   • Income caps + Online certificate programs

3. Kinder-Crisis?

   • Reading recovery's long-term effects

   • ECD going downhill

   • The pandemic erased a decade of public preschool gains

4. Returning to Offline

   • Vedantu slashes course costs

   • Online learning going away in Virginia and Maryland schools

   • Online exam cheating is up

5. Funding + M&A

   • Allen Career Institute, Glorang, Inspired Education Group, Galena

   • Pearson, Snap! Mobile, upGrad