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A Sideways Look at the Future of Higher Education

Edsurge

Newspaper circulation dropped by nearly half between 2005 and 2018, from 53.3 Consumers could place classified ads for free on sites such as Craigslist and advertisers could more efficiently reach their target audiences with digital advertising through Facebook or Google. million to 28.5 billion to $14.3 Many colleges are nonprofits.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

But computing power, device adoption, pervasive broadband and exponentially networked collaboration platforms of the past decade have already moved us to a world of information abundance. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014.

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

McKneely was a teacher at Edna Karr High School in New Orleans when the 2005 hurricane devastated the city and closed his school for months. InspireNOLA also began trying to get teachers at all levels acquainted with the learning platform Google Classroom, which it had previously used for high school.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. DeVos herself sat on the Board of Directors of the Acton Institute from 1995 to 2005, an organization that recently blogged about repealing child labor laws. Facebook is, although Mark Zuckerberg denies it , a media company. million in E-Rate rebates.). In March, the FCC approved a $9.25