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URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/hurling-money-at-edtech-understanding-pu
 blic-funding-and-private-profit-during-covid-19/
SUMMARY:Hurling money at Edtech: Understanding public funding and private p
 rofit during Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:26 February\, 16:00-17:30\nREGISTER HERE\nInstitute of Developm
 ent Studies IDS Convening Space and online on Zoom\nThis Sussex Developmen
 t Lecture by Dr Kathryn Moeller\, is part of the series on Power\, Politic
 s and Hope. The lecture will examine the political economy of schooling du
 ring Covid-19.  It draws from a co-authored chapter from the forthcoming 
 manuscript\, Silicon Futures: How Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists are I
 nfluencing Education around the World.\nIt brings together the theoretical
  frameworks of disaster capitalism (Klein\, 2007) and educational capitali
 sation (Moeller et. al.\, 2024) to ask: who profited from public money dur
 ing the pandemic\, and how did local\, state\, and federal level politics 
 and policies shape the terrain of profit from new educational technologies
  (edtech)?\nSituated within a broader analysis of the global financial pol
 itics of schooling during this conjunctural moment\, this four-year\, mixe
 d-methods case study focuses on Chicago Public Schools in Chicago\, Illino
 is and Orange County Public Schools in Orlando\, Florida\, two of the US
 ’s top 10 largest school districts\, with majority Black and Latinx stud
 ents.\nAfter examining the historical currents and foundations that led to
  this conjunctural moment of the Covid-19 pandemic\, the presentation firs
 t examines how the districts and teachers’ unions managed this crisis\, 
 to understand how their responses shaped opportunities for profit. Second\
 , it looks at how these districts educated during the crisis through a loo
 k at the existing platforms they employed and edtech companies with whom t
 hey contracted.  Third\, it jumps scale to an industry level\, exploring 
 how for-profit investors invested during the height of the pandemic\, the 
 investment bubble and crash that ensued\, and how\, and to what extent com
 panies and investors profited from public money.  Lastly\, it looks at wh
 at has happened as the “free money went away\,” and considers attempts
  to push for democratic accountability and transparency to reign in privat
 e profit from public resources\, looking towards hope for the future.\nCo-
 authors of the chapter the lecture draws from are Kathryn Moeller\, Klint 
 Kanopka\, Tyler Hook\, María Fernanda Rodriguez\, Shahnaaz Khan\, Sonya S
 myslova\, and Mariam Sedighi.\n&nbsp\;
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