Week in Edtech 8/4/23: EdTech Weekly Highlights: Supreme Court's Admissions Ruling, AI in K-12, Funding Roundup & More!

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Edtech Winners of the Summer:
- Kahoot! gets $1.72B Buyout
- Duolingo continues to beat the market
- GoStudent raises $95 (some debt) to expand
- Ukraine-based Preply raises $70M (some debt)

Edtech Bummers of the Summer:
- Paper conducts layoffs
- Byju's negative press after board walkouts, despite AI rollout

Edtech Partnerships of the Summer:
- Instructure to distribute Khanmigo through Canvas AI App Marketplace
- Newsela acquires Formative to expand assessment capabilities
- Coursera and UT System launch system wide "Career Academy" microcredentials

+ The biggest story in Higher Ed (the end of affirmative action) and K12 (continued backsliding of outcomes in the face of politicization), the AI beat, funding round-up and more!