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COVID-19 Pries Open the U.S. Education Market for Those up to the Task

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Ryan Bohl

Senior Middle East and North Africa Analyst at RANE, Stratfor

Jun 5, 2020 | 10:00 GMT

Seven-year-old Hamza Haqqani, a 2nd grade student at Al-Huda Academy, uses a computer to participate in an online class with his teacher and classmates at his home in Bartlett, Illinois, on May 1, 2020. Al-Huda Academy has had to adopt an e-learning program to finish the year after all schools in the state were forced to cancel classes to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Seven-year-old Hamza Haqqani uses a computer at his home in Bartlett, Illinois, to participate in an online lesson with his teacher and classmates on May 1, 2020.

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Since schools began shutting down to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the United States, distance learning has become an increasingly essential tool for the U.S. primary and secondary education sector. But for the companies selling those technologies, uneven financial resources and inconsistent curriculum standards across America's 13,506 school districts will preclude any national "one-size-fits-all" approach to the U.S. market. Instead, companies will need to design flexible and highly customized products and instructional content in order to seize the opportunity at hand, and become a mainstay of classrooms across the country....

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