As the first year of “back-to-school” learning draws to a close, we want to take the opportunity to highlight some of the work our team’s been focused on in K-12. One of the aspects we love about this job is serving as a conduit for parents, educators, businesses and thought leaders, bringing their perspectives to […]
There is a crisis in U.S. schools: Teachers, the most important ingredient in a child’s learning,1 are demoralized. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, one in six K-12 teachers reported that they were likely to leave the profession. During the pandemic, this number increased to one in four.2 There are many avenues to better support and […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused nationwide drops in K-12 academic benchmarks, with impacts on literacy rates perhaps being the most alarming indicator. Schools’ concerns about the lack of hands-on, in-person instruction, coupled with high levels of vacancies in teaching jobs have been covered broadly by the media. How schools are going to get students back […]
Across the last few years, the market for instruction materials in higher education has undergone a realignment of epic proportions. Widespread outrage over materials costs has caused publishers to introduce new, lower pricing models, led professors to explore free resources, sometimes funded by philanthropic projects, and forced many students to forgo textbooks altogether. The net […]
Even as mask mandates fall away, we continue to see the lingering effects of the pandemic in all areas of the education market. New priorities for institutions and a new sense of agency on the part of parents and learners are reshaping old markets and creating new ones and we continue to see these themes […]
Like the acceptance of online learning in post-secondary and K-12, the pandemic may also be a tipping point for employers hiring based on the candidate demonstrating the actual skills needed for a role, rather than broader credentials such as college degrees. Nicholas Java The U.S. labor force participation has declined by millions since the beginning […]
As the K-12 institutional supplemental academic services market explodes in the wake of the pandemic and available federal stimulus funding, it recalls a similar period in the early 2000s tied to the No Child Left Behind (“NCLB”) Act. That window of opportunity didn’t quite materialize and persist as many had hoped. It is important to […]
This month we highlight a shift we are beginning to see in the education deal market. Asset prices are facing pressure across the broader economy due in no small part to a stock market that may be anticipating an inevitable hike in interest rates. While this may begin to shift some leverage from sellers to […]
Last year at this time, we offered perspective on issues facing the K-12 community as a result of the pandemic. Most of us spent considerable time watching and supporting schools, students, and parents in their response. In one strand of our work at Tyton, we found that for parents, there was a pronounced shift in […]
