Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],

Welcome back to Ed Set Go. 

It’s never a dull day in education, especially since the pandemic hit and changed the concept of learning forever. We have a whole line-up of the most important happenings from the world of education for you today, including a record 50% cut in edtech funding between 2021 and 2022.

But I’d like to start the edition with a small thought experiment.

Imagine you’re going back to school after two years. At home, you had a patchy internet connection, a single phone shared between four people, and just worksheets upon worksheets to fill up. You’re fed up and just want to see your school friends. Academics isn’t at the top of your mind.

Instead, what you’re hit with is a barrage of assessments—baseline assessments, endline assessments, tests to figure out what grade level you should be taught at—and a flurry of after-school remedial classes to get you up to speed.

Would you want to go back to school?

Unfortunately though, this is what the average government or private school will need to put their students through as they settle back into their physical classrooms.