In college, you have kids who come onto campus and already know what job they want. I never knew whether to find this impressive or annoying. On the one hand it’s admirable that someone knows exactly what job they want at that age. On the other hand I’ve always wondered…

As someone who’s really interested in edtech, I thought I should’ve been spending most of my time thinking about the future of education. But this semester, I decided I wanted to dive deeper into education’s past, and I’m taking a class on the history of education and the American Dream…

I’m now one month away from the start of my senior year in college. The summer has gone by incredibly fast. I think it was around this time last summer where I was floating around the idea of trying to do my own EdTech thesis project. I’m really glad I…

This is Part 2 of my series where I describe the top challenges to the growth of alternative education and what potential solutions there could be to these challenges. For Part 1 I looked at challenges 1–2 and for this post I look at challenge number 3. 3. The heavy financial investment required and lack of accessibility for lower-income families Tuition for alternative…

I wanted to write this in response to my recent learnings about public school teachers. I realized that for my thesis thus far I was looking only at the student and parent angle, and hadn’t brought up teachers yet. …

In my discussion of alternative education startups thus far, I’ve admittedly been optimistic. Maybe too optimistic. And I know I’m biased because I love the way alternative education startups approach learning. …

I mentioned in my last post that microschools have actually been around since the 80’s and there was a microschool movement in the 2010’s. For the next part of my thesis, I want to explore that and understand what alternative education was like 6–10 years ago. I recently had an…

In my last post I explained how I got interested in EdTech through my own personal experiences and reflections. Since then I’ve done a lot more research into the space and I’ll share my process for picking a space within EdTech to focus on and provide some background on that…

I’m an undergraduate junior spending my spare time between classes and varsity athletics learning about EdTech startups. Why? I’ve seen how many EdTech founders often have untraditional education backgrounds or faced major disadvantages in the education system growing up. I can’t say that I had one of those experiences. I…