The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Daring Librarian

MAY 14, 2012

I get these in the mail from companies I''ve donated to $ like the Chesapeake Bay Foundation , Public Television, etc. It''s great to have for presentations, Tweetups, Birds of a Feather, & Bloggers Cafe meets! unless of course you feel compelled to upgrade me to a club level sky suite! Don''t have any? Yeah.lesson learned!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

He seemed like somebody I’d like to meet.”. One of the draws for Hispanic families is Monterey Mushrooms, a national company with farms about 10 miles southwest down I-75 from the school. Of course, public universities and colleges can be forbidding, too. They made an appointment to meet with Sellers and others.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For-profit schools, such as Salter and others owned by its parent company, Premier Education Group, have zeroed in on this market. The company posted more than $175 million in profits between 2004 and 2014, according to a 2016 lawsuit filed by a former company CEO who alleged that he was owed bonus pay.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

ATLANTA — Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. Students like Caleb continue to languish in GNET schools while the lawsuit continues its course. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Lake Oconee Academy was the brainchild of the Reynolds Lake Oconee real estate company. Nestled among gated communities, golf courses and country clubs, the school felt like an oasis of opportunity in a county of haves and have-nots, where nearly half of all children live in poverty while others live in multimillion-dollar lakeside houses.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

That pronoun “we,” of course, is used in turn both broadly and narrowly, to include and exclude. Yeats’ poem “Easter, 1916,” of course – but opted, thanks to Donald Trump, to invoke a different, more apocalyptic Yeats. So the title of this talk is “The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech” instead.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

In 2004, President George W. A 2015 Pew Research Center report revealed that the disconnected included 5 million households with school-aged children, who either couldn’t afford home broadband or lived in rural areas avoided by for-profit internet companies. Bush called for universal broadband access in America by 2007.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2018

I laid out my entire schedule and these are my breaks and this is when the courses meet and where I can fit them in.”. All of these things compound the struggles older students have affording college, balancing it with families and jobs and dealing with administrative offices and courses open only during weekday business hours.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In Iowa in particular, the companies charge steep prices — nearly $20,000 on average for a cosmetology certificate, the equivalent of a two-year community college degree twice over — and they have fought to keep the required number of school hours higher than anywhere else in the country. Students were regularly pulled out of Ms.

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Training Comparison Company Report 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Now the course is offered each semester and a whopping 3,000 students take it in any given school year. He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. The class then had 50 students.

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