This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 5/6/22

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Guest: Ashley Andersen Zantop, CEO & Chairman of Cambium Learning Group

Topics This Week:

1. Google Grow Good?
   • Training now free for 500 workers at every U.S. business
2. Student Debt Cancellation
   • Broad cancellation could backfire
   • We should cancel student debt, but only for some
   • Income caps + Online certificate programs
3. Kinder-Crisis?
   • Reading recovery's long-term effects
   • ECD going downhill
   • The pandemic erased a decade of public preschool gains
4. Returning to Offline
   • Vedantu slashes course costs
   • Online learning going away in Virginia and Maryland schools
   • Online exam cheating is up
5. Funding + M&A
   • Allen Career Institute, Glorang, Inspired Education Group, Galena
   • Pearson, Snap! Mobile, upGrad