This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 8/26/22

Topics This Week:

1. Student Loan Forgiveness

   • NYT + Inside Higher Ed 

2. Valuations

   • ”Stars Through Thunderstorms”

3. Accelerator News

   • Y Combinator cuts startup batch size by 40% amid economic downturn

   • Crunchbase: 2,000 Tech Layoffs in 2022

4. Higher Ed & K12 Enrollment

   • These Colleges and Universities Are Reporting Record Size Freshmen Classes + UC program seeks to re-enroll adults who stopped out

   • Hopeful but careful: Parents and teachers address new school year

   • Higher ed must build on what we learned during the pandemic

   • States Where Public Schools Are Losing the Most Students

   • Labor Disputes Threaten Start of New School Year

5. Funding + M&A

   • Sunstone raises $35M

   • GrowthSpace raises $25M

   • Microverse raises $4M

   • ITHAKA raises $2.5M

   • Ready Player Me raises $56M 

   • BrightCHAMPS Acquires Schola

   • Nerdy Acquires Codeverse