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Carnegie Learning Gets a Makeover After Private Equity Investment

Edsurge

Carnegie Learning currently offers online math courseware for middle, high-school and college students, along with accompanying print textbooks as part of its blended-learning programs. In 2005, EMC was acquired for $44 million by private equity firm Wicks Group, which later acquired JIST in 2007.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here’s a list of election outcomes pertaining to library-related measures , thanks to EveryLibrary.org. million repayment the Education Department demanded the for-profit institution make in 2005,” reports Inside Higher Ed. ” Bravo, blended learning. ” (That’s Jefferson County, Colorado.).

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. We’re doing everything we can,” says Mr. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. They have to learn early.”. GREELEY, Colo. A real plan.”.

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