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Oct 24, 2025

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Edtech and Workforce Development News Roundup - 10/24

In the current era of the modern workforce, ensuring job quality, equitable education, and effective career preparation is of increasing importance. The articles in this week's News Roundup reveal notable disparities in employment conditions across the United States, alongside emerging approaches (such as artificial intelligence) to support learners with diverse needs. Additionally, new initiatives focus on creating alternative pathways that better prepare students for sustainable careers.

Oct 21, 2025

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Knack

Knack raises Series B from New Markets Venture Partners, appoints industry leader Megan Dusenbery as CEO

Funding supports continued scale of higher education partnerships for student-led peer learning; education leader Megan Dusenbery appointed CEO; founder Samyr Qureshi becomes Executive Chairman. MIAMI, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Knack , the leading student success technology platform that enables higher education institutions to power and scale peer learning programs, today announced the appointment of Megan Dusenbery as Chief Executive Officer. Founding CEO Samyr Qureshi will transition...

Oct 21, 2025

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Mantra Health

Mantra Health Welcomes Student Affairs Leadership Council Member and Talks Student Wellness with Les Cook, EdD

Mantra Health welcomes Les Cook, EdD, Chancellor Emeritus at Montana Technological University, to Student Affairs Leadership Council. Mantra Health is proud to announce Les Cook, EdD, as the newest new member of our Student Affairs Leadership Council , a strategic advisory group dedicated to advancing Mantra Health’s mission of providing high-quality mental health services to college students nationwide. With nearly four decades of experience in student affairs and higher education, Dr. Cook...

Oct 20, 2025

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Orijin

Orijin Debuts Critically Acclaimed Film Sing Sing on Its Managed Learning Platform, Reaching 63,000+ Incarcerated Individuals in 19 States

New York, NY— October 20, 2025 — Orijin, the leading education and workforce development platform for correctional facilities, is proud to announce that the feature film Sing Sing is now available on Orijin tablets in facilities across 19 U.S. states. This powerful true story of transformation, hope, and rehabilitation through the arts is now accessible to more than 63,000 incarcerated learners nationwide. Sing Sing, an A24 release, is inspired by the extraordinary life of John “Divine G”...

Oct 17, 2025

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Edtech and Workforce Development News Roundup - 10/17

This week's News Roundup features topics that collectively illustrate how education technology and workforce development are evolving in 2025, from AI shaping hiring and upskilling needs to the persistent gaps in school-based mental health, chronic absenteeism, and college readiness tied to poverty.

Oct 13, 2025

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Nexford

Nexford University Introduces Reimagined Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Built for Today’s Career Challenges

WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, October 13, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Making business education more affordable, flexible, and career-focused worldwide Nexford University , a next-generation accredited online university designed for modern learners, announces the launch of its newly reimagined Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) program. Inspired by learner and employer feedback and built for the world of work, the new BBA program offers multiple enhancements that deepen career...

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LearnPlatform Evidence-as-a-Service Now Available in AWS Marketplace

  • Writer: Cat Burchmore
    Cat Burchmore
  • Nov 3, 2022
  • 2 min read

Updated: Nov 20, 2024

Dive Brief:


RALEIGH, N.C. —


Edtech providers and their partners can now quickly and easily deploy evidence-based solutions to comply with federal requirements to effectively and equitably serve students and educators.


LearnPlatform, the leading comprehensive edtech effectiveness system, today announced the availability of its Evidence-as-a-Service, a tiered subscription offering, in AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog that customers can use to find, buy, deploy, and manage third-party software, data, and services to build solutions and run their businesses on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The launch of Evidence-as-a-Service in AWS Marketplace will support K-12 solution providers and their partners with the necessary evidence to meet market demands, demonstrate compliance with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and efficiently serve all students and educators.


The Every Student Succeeds Act requires federal funding and stimulus dollars to be used for “evidence-based interventions.” Evidence-as-a-Service offers education solution providers at any stage – early, growth and established – to meet ESSA compliance in a matter of weeks, at a fraction of the cost of traditional research and to build evidence-based interventions that empower districts and states to buy and use their products to drive student outcomes. Each subscription aligns with one or more of the four levels of evidence outlined in ESSA to demonstrate rationale and identify and show promising, moderate, or strong evidence that their product positively impacts student outcomes.


“As school districts and states across the US modernize their learning environments, we aim to provide solution providers with rigorous, practical evaluation to provide evidence at the speed of decision-making,” said Karl Rectanus, CEO and Co-founder of LearnPlarform. “By offering our service in AWS Marketplace, we equip more providers to build their evidence base more quickly and cost-effectively, and better serve their state and district customers.”


AWS customers can use their existing AWS credits to procure LearnPlatform’s Evidence-as-a-Service offering in AWS Marketplace. Learn more about Evidence-as-a-Service in AWS Marketplace here.


About LearnPlatform™


The edtech infrastructure for modern learning environments, is the fastest-growing source of safe, trustworthy evidence and insights in U.S. education. School districts, state agencies, solution providers and their partners use LearnPlatform’s technology and research services to quickly and cost-effectively grow, show and use evidence to improve instruction, outcomes and their budgets, all in compliance with federal requirements. Based in Raleigh, N.C., the for-benefit research organization is committed to expanding equitable access for all students and teachers to the learning technology that works best for them. For more information, visit learnplatform.com.


Over the 2021-22 school year, educators on average used 148 different ed tech tools while students accessed 143, according to a report by LearnPlatform, an ed tech company that helps districts research and choose digital learning products.


  1. Meanwhile, an average of 1,417 different ed tech tools are accessed each month per district, the report found. The most commonly used type of ed tech tools by students and educators focus on classroom engagement and instruction (22.5%), LearnPlatform found.

  2. “These numbers should prompt district leaders to ask not just what ed tech is being used in their schools or how often it’s getting used, but also whether it is safe, equitable, and positively impacting learning,” said Karl Rectanus, CEO and co-founder of LearnPlatform, in a statement.


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