By Mary Troyan WASHINGTON — States would set and enforce their own K-12 academic standards under a massive, bipartisan rewrite of education policy that cleared a crucial vote Thursday. The legislation would produce the most significant changes to elementary and secondary education since President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law in 2001, giving the federal government significant power over school reforms. Source: Read the Story at USA Today
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BLOOMINGTON, November 19, 2015 -‐ The Center for the Study of the College Fraternity (CSCF) is proud to announce significant advancements towards fraternity and sorority assessment and research. This includes a new survey, a new relationship with the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research (CPR) and the 2015 Association of Fraternity | Sorority Advisors/CSCF research grants and research award winners.
This fall, after getting to know each other in online video exchanges, some Ugandan high school students told a group of students in New Orleans that most Ugandans have no reliable electricity and use candles or lanterns after dark. Over the following weeks, the students worked together to build solar-powered lights. An education technology startup called Level Up Village supplied both schools with solar cells, batteries and LEDs, along with 3-D printers to fabricate the housings, tutorials on electricity and computer-aided design, and an online workspace for posting notes and swapping ideas.
Slow rate of growth threatens to leave a gap of 20 million degree-holders by 2025
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Growing Family of Tier 1 Investors Recognize TutorGroup’s Leadership in the Online Education Market Proceeds to Accelerate TutorGroup’s Rapid International Expansion and Enable Continued Enhancement of Platform for Continued Leadership in Online Education Market
Employer Student Loan Contribution Platform Enables Companies to Attract & Retain Millennial Talent. At the intersection of Fintech and Education, Tuition.io Addresses the $1.3 Trillion U.S. Loan Crisis
17 November 2015 – Workers with post-secondary education are more likely to be unemployed in lower-income countries, reflecting a “mismatch” between skilled persons and the number of available jobs matching their competencies and expectations, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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The nation’s second-largest for-profit college operator, Education Management Corporation, is expected to agree to pay nearly $90 million to settle a case accusing it of compensating employees based on how many students they enrolled, encouraging hyperaggressive boiler room tactics to increase revenue.
Today, Instructure became a public company (we’re INST on the NYSE). So what does that mean exactly? Well, it really just means that instead of having a handful of venture firms and employees own stock it now means that a whole bunch of new people (“the public”) also own stock in us. It also means that we disclose financial information every quarter that we didn’t used to disclose. Aside from that, it’s business as usual.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Varsity Tutors, the leading live learning platform for private instructors in the United States, announced today it closed $50 million in Series B funding from Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), musician and TV personality Adam Levine and education executive Stuart Udell, among others. As part of the terms of investment, Woody Marshall (TCV General Partner) and Erik Blachford (former CEO of Expedia, Hotwire and Hotels.com) joined Varsity Tutors’ Board of Directors. The new round of funding follows a previously unannounced $7 million in Series A funding from Answers Corporation executives David Karandish and Chris Sims that first closed in May 2014.