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Dr. Pam Homan talks about about the business of education and the role Superintendents play integrating the private sector into a districts long term plans.

Christopher Chute, Research VP at International Data Corporation (IDC), discusses trends in technology. Chute translates market trends to the education sector with Dr. Rod. 

Barnes & Noble Education Inc. said its earnings fell 9.6% since bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. spun off the college business in August.

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By Liana B. Baker

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 …

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.

The massive disruption of the education industry is well underway, but the biggest tremors are yet to come—disruptions so dramatic that many universities will cease to exist in the next few years.