This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 8/12/22

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Topics This Week:

1. Fall Election Cycle
   • Va. Gov. Youngkin faces second suit over teacher tip line
   • Democrats Cede ‘Party of Education’ Label to GOP
2. 2022 CHLOE 7 Report
   • Announcement + PDF
   • Online learning leaders think fully in-person will be a rarity
3. Big Tech vs. Udemy
   • Amazon Launches Udemy Competitor
   • Facebook Working on a Udemy Competitor?
4. Metaverse
   • Harvard Metaverse in Education Report
   • Deloitte Metaverse Report
   • AppLovin wants to buy video game maker Unity for $20 billion
5. Funding + M&A
   • upGrad raises $210M and acquires Exampur
   • Jodo raises $15M
   • Territorium raises $4.4M
   • Kide Science raises $1M
   • Achievable raises $650K
   • Prometric LLC acquires Finetune
   • EducationDynamics acquires EDU First