Topics This Week:

1. Education Stocks Take a Hit
   • 306 global education stocks lost $120B of value in 2021, down 40%
   • Edtech Stocks hit a steep learning curve
2. Potato Head Becomes a Digital Therapist
   • PresenceLearning partnered with Hasbro to bring beloved characters & classic games to therapy platform
3. Funding + M&A Round-up
   • Munic-based Edurino raised €3.35M to advance digital learning for kids
   • Former Twitter India head Manish Maaheshwari’s Invact Metaversity raises funds @ $33M valuation
   • Why these Udemy execs left to build a better Udemy
   • Paper secures $343M CAD with US schools drawn to its remote tutoring tech
4. Evidence as a Service
   • GUEST: Karl Rectanus - Co-founder & CEO @ LearnPlatform
   • LearnPlatform releases subscription to help solutions providers lower costs, build EdTech evidence that districts & states trust
5. Homeschooling
   • GUEST: Kelly Smith - Founder & CEO @ Prenda

Post-Recording Updates:

• Edtech is luring students to cheat with fake answer sites
• Edtech company Cengage names publishing vet as CTO
• Edtech market to reach S288B USD by 2031 (comprehensive research by FMI)
• Educators have some pointed advice for tech companies building the metaverse