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

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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