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by supersync 1522 days ago
Here’s the sad reality

Admin controls the money

They spend 99% of it on tools they use for their own jobs

The 1% is whatever fad they are supposed to buy into in order to maintain a semblance of legitimacy (“student success” for example)

If you want to make money in education

Get your state legislators to pass a law that requires schools to comply with a new regulation that makes your solution relevant

That’s how the big edtech companies got to $1B+, with only one exception: 2U