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Meanwhile, in the everyday world of schools, colleges and training programs, multitudes of students are struggling, educational institutions are challenged and employers are straining to find or train the workers they need.

Rather, the critical measurement for the conference is deal flow, investment and financial ROI.Ĭonference participants skew white and male, and egos tend to be outsized. That’s because the conference is mostly about the competition and success of private equity venture capital, about established and rising vendors, angel funders and start-ups-and not directly about success for learners or annual improvements in school performance or bachelor’s degrees production. The ASU+GSV conference in San Diego-where more than 4,000 people gathered this month from the education, edtech, publishing, venture capital and private equity sectors-is a hard conference to describe to typical education professionals, or to teachers who are on strike in states across the country.