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The Conversations We Need for Education in 2025

At Tyton Partners, we occupy a unique vantage point within the education sector. We act as a strategic…

11 Higher Ed Hot Takes for 2025

Higher education is at a tipping point. In 2025, institutions will navigate a landscape defined by rapid technological…

Back-to-School 2024 à la Maslow

Driving Toward a Degree 2024 and Listening to Learners 2024 highlight key areas where students’ needs aren’t being…

Listening to Learners 2024

Listening to Learners 2024   This year’s Listening to Learners 2024 focuses on the relationship between student safety,…

Driving Toward a Degree 2024

Driving Toward a Degree 2024

Razors & Blades: The Art & Science of Pricing in EdTech

An introduction to pricing strategy We all know the business case cliché on price strategy generally attributed to…

Racing Forward: Bridging the Gap Between Generative AI Proficiency and Educational Practice

Since spring 2023, we at Tyton have been measuring how higher education has been grappling with the rise…

Time for Class 2024

Time for Class 2024

Stopping Out (Again) – FAFSA Delays May Have Outsized Impact on Vulnerable Student Populations

Every year, the post-secondary community closely watches May 1st as it marks the traditional deadline for student enrollment…

10 Ruminations on ASU+GSV 2024 on Higher Education, EdTech, and People

Our team here at Tyton Partners was out in force at this year’s ASU+GSV conference, with almost 30…

Higher Education Discussions at ASU+GSV 2024

ASU+GSV is one of Tyton’s favorite conferences. Not only do we get to see 4,000+ of our closest…

Where is the Textbook Revolution this Dad Was Promised? (Updated 2024)

Across the last two decades, every content-driven industry in our economy, from music to movies to books to…

Investing in Tomorrow: Lifetime Value of Financial Education in High School

Investing in Tomorrow: Lifetime Value of Financial Education in High School

Tyton’s Top 10 Higher Education Predictions for 2024

As we embrace 2024, our higher education consulting team has identified 10 big ideas that the sector will…

Cultivating and Increasing Belonging for Learners

Studies show that belonging impacts several student outcomes, including increased engagement; academic performance including persistence, retention, completion rates;…

Listening to Learners 2023: Increasing Belonging In and Out of the Classroom

Listening to Learners 2023: Increasing Belonging in and out of the Classroom Tyton Partners’ 2023 Listening to Learners…

Driving Toward a Degree 2023:  First-Generation Focus

In our recent article, we discussed an enrollment concern in higher education as institutions grapple to sustain their…

Driving Toward a Degree 2023: Awareness, Belonging, and Coordination

Driving Toward a Degree 2023: Awareness, Belonging, and Coordination Tyton Partners’ 2023 Driving Toward a Degree research publication…

From Cliff to Escalator: Why the 5-year Higher Ed Enrollment Outlook is Less Dire Than Some May Suggest

“Looming Enrollment Cliff Poses Serious Threat to Colleges” … “Will Your College Survive the Demographic Cliff?” … “The…

Higher Education in 2023 – The Key Issues Shaping the Year Ahead

As we enter 2023, our higher education consulting team is sharing thoughts on the year ahead across the sector….

7000+ Faculty & Administrators Share Their Views on Equity Gaps and Opportunities

Today, we published three reports which highlight how the higher education system misses the mark for students, especially…

Reports: Nationwide, Large-Scale Studies Find New Evidence on How Schools Are Closing Outcome Gaps

Tyton Partners publishes three reports highlighting how higher education institutions struggle to support students in the post-pandemic era…

Hitting Their Stride: Building Momentum Through High-Quality Implementation and a Commitment to Change

The developmental education reform movement is at a crossroads. While significant shifts in institutional and state policy have…

Time for Class 2022: The State of Digital Learning and Courseware Adoption

Since 2014, Tyton Partners has monitored the dynamics of the higher education instructional materials and digital learning market…

Driving Toward a Degree 2022: Closing Outcome Gaps Through Student Supports

Driving Toward a Degree is a research collaborative which helps institutions evolve their student supports.   In this year’s…

Where is the Textbook Revolution this Dad was Promised?

Across the last few years, the market for instruction materials in higher education has undergone a realignment of…

What Could Shape Higher Education Over the Next Twelve Months

With a second year of Covid under our belts and talk shifting from “pandemic” to “endemic,” it seems…

Closing the Perception to Practice Gap Can Improve Equity Across Student Lifecycle

A family of reports from Tyton Partners examine how academic institutions can implement practices that increase equitable outcomes…

Beyond the Noise: Is the SNHU-Kenzie deal the new “new thing”?

The higher education landscape is shifting in big and small ways.  On the one hand, the pandemic…

Beyond the Noise: COVID-19’s Impact on Course Completion Rates Will Widen Equity Gaps

This month, we share new insights from our ongoing series of faculty surveys regarding the impact of the…

Time for Class COVID-19 Edition Part 3: The Impact of 2020 on Introductory Faculty and Their Students

This past fall, higher education faculty across the country, after having worked throughout the summer to rebuild and…

Beyond the Noise: Is Higher Ed Countercyclical or Not?

In September we announced the addition of two highly respected higher education executives, Greg Finkelstein and Michael Goldstein,…

Beyond the Noise: Is the Board Serious?

Like you, we have had a busy start to the proverbial new academic year.  Our clients, colleagues, and…

Time For Class COVID-19 Edition Part 2

This summer, college and university faculty across the country planned for a fall like no other. After the…

Time For Class 2020 Resource Collection

Since 2015, Tyton Partners has tracked the state of higher education digital learning,  courseware and digital adoption via…

Hitting their Stride 2020: Developmental Education Reform Current State

The 2020 Hitting Their Stride (HTS) survey reveals growing adoption and awareness of proven developmental reforms as well…

Finding Your Place: The Current State of K-12 Social Emotional Learning

As schools and districts plan for a return to school in the fall of 2020, social emotional learning…

Beyond the Noise: Debriefing the Great Transition to Remote Learning

In this newsletter, Tyton Partners is pleased to share early insights from a national survey of faculty regarding…

Beyond the Noise: Uber-uncertainty

The current coronavirus pandemic has created a series of specific and difficult challenges for higher education. Through its…

College Parents Weigh in on Fall Enrollment

While the severity of this crisis cannot be underestimated, we are inspired by how organizations are shifting their…

How the Higher Education Supplier Community is Responding to COVID-19

We hope this note finds you and your family safe and healthy during this unprecedented time. We also…

Hitting Their Stride: The Next Chapter of Developmental Education Reform

Developmental education has long been a critical issue in higher education. Historical approaches required students to take a…

Driving Toward a Degree 2019: The Evolution of Student Supports in Higher Education

This report follows Tyton Partners’ 2015 two-part series Driving Toward a Degree: The Evolution of Planning and Advising in…

Updated Courseware in Context (CWiC) Framework Launches with New Guide to Courseware Adoption and Refined Accessibility Attributes and Quality Indicators

BOSTON, MA (Sep 19, 2018) – An update to the Courseware in Context (CWiC) Framework was released today….

Tyton Announces Global Growth50

Tyton Partners Recognizes 50 International Education Companies with Impact Tyton Partners names the 2018 Tyton Global Growth50 at…

2018 Tyton Global Growth 50

Tyton Partners has officially launched the 2018 Tyton Global Growth50, a recognition of dynamic growth-stage companies across all…

Purdue Acquires Kaplan: An Inconvenient Truth About Academic Efficiency

The Bottom Line Purdue’s acquisition of Kaplan University has been the subject of much debate. Punditry aside, a…

Courseware in Context (CWiC) Framework Officially Launches With Expanded Feature Set

BOSTON, MA–(Marketwired – Oct 11, 2016) – Today marks the official launch of the Courseware in Context (CWiC) Framework,…

American Splendour

Education sector M&A activity increased once again in 2015. Nick Herbert takes a look at the deals and…

Scale-Ups Over Start-Ups: Tyton Partners Announces 2016 Growth50 Companies

Source: Press Release Company Recognizes Top 50 Growth-Stage Companies in the Education Sector Achieving Impact at Scale BOSTON,…

Rich Flynn Joins Tyton Partners as Managing Director

Source: Press Release STAMFORD, CT–(Marketwired – Sep 8, 2016) – Tyton Partners, a leading advisory firm in the…

Lots of Talk, Little Action for Academic Advising and Planning Technology

Source: Edsurge The latest Tyton research focuses on how higher-ed institutions are using advising and planning technology. With…

Learning to Adapt

Source: Inside Higher Ed Major study of adaptive learning finds inconclusive results about its ability to improve outcomes…

Didn’t Go to College, but Have You Seen My LinkedIn?

Source: Bloomberg.com What people might learn from the combined companies after the Microsoft deal. Click here for the full story.

New Research from Tyton Partners Highlights Imperative of Higher Education Planning and Advising Reform

Source:  Press Release As postsecondary student retention and completion rates in the US fail to improve at expected…

Tyton Partners Places Call for Growth Companies With Staying Power

Tyton Partners Places Call for Growth Companies With Staying Power Nominations for the 2016 Tyton Growth50 are open,…

Learning to Adapt 2.0: The Evolution of Adaptive Learning in Higher Education

Over the past four years, adaptive learning has gone from an ill-defined concept in postsecondary education to an…

Driving Toward a Degree 2015: The Evolution of Planning and Advising in Higher Education

A confluence of factors, including a shift to performance-based funding and declining student enrollment, has led to an…

Do you have an Adaptive Learning Product?

Adaptive learning continues to evolve. Is this evolution leading to more adoption and improved outcomes? Tyton Partners is…

Planning and Advising Provider Landscape

Through our research with 20+ institutions and 120+ companies supporting institutions around student success and retention, we have…

Is Your Institution Ready to Pursue Integrated Academic Planning and Student Advising?

U.S. post-secondary institutions spend over $1 billion annually on academic planning and advising and, despite this, on-time student…

Lynda.com Teaches Patience

Patience is a virtue when it comes to investing in education.  Lynda.com’s sale to LinkedIn for $1.5B is…

Digital Courseware Adoption Dynamics

Pressure is mounting in the postsecondary education ecosystem to improve the quality of teaching and learning, while increasing…