Education Week reports:
On the first Friday in May, Tyler Bosmeny called an all-staff Zoom meeting for 9 a.m. The sale of his company—ed-tech juggernaut Clever, founded in 2012 and now used by more than half the country’s 50 million public school students—had been announced the previous evening. The CEO planned on striking his usual optimistic-but-pragmatic tone. But when he saw the faces of his 180 employees staring back from the rectangles on his screen, he was overcome with emotion.
There's more:
Flush with billions of federal stimulus dollars, many of the nation’s K-12 school districts are looking to make permanent the most promising online learning experiments of the past year. In response, the largest companies in the ed-tech marketplace are consolidating their positions, gobbling up smaller entities they view as complementary so they can offer a bundle of related products and services—not just in the United States, but to schools across the world.
An article well worth your time.
