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Schools Are Desperate to Stop Violence. Will These New Guidelines Help?

Edsurge

After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, Virginia became the first state to require colleges to conduct threat assessments , later requiring K-12 schools to do the same. A method for schools to figure out which student threats foreshadow violence, threat assessment was adapted from the Secret Service.

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The Game Agency Named to 2019 Training Industry Top 20TM Training Delivery Companies List

The Game Agency

Training Industry, the leading research and information resource for corporate learning leaders, prepares the Training Industry Top 20 and Training Industry Watch List reports on critical sectors of the training marketplace to better inform professionals about the best and most innovative providers of training services and technologies.

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RobotLAB Inks Landmark Robotics Partnership with American Samoa Department of Education

eSchool News

RobotLAB was founded in 2007 as an education robotics integrator and has successfully maintained its status as an industry leader for more than 15 years, while also expanding its portfolio to include cleaning, delivery and customer service robots.

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Varsity Tutors to Go Public at $1.7B Valuation Through SPAC Acquisition

Edsurge

Better known by its Varsity Tutors brand, Nerdy was founded in 2007 by Chuck Cohn, then an undergraduate at Washington University in St. led by longtime industry investor Michael Moe. The acquisition is expected to be complete in the second quarter of 2021, and Nerdy will be listed on NYSE under the tickers NRDY.

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Global Impact Teacher Receives 2021 Kishor M. Kulkarni Distinguished High School Teacher Award

eSchool News

ASM International is a society of professionals for the advancement of the materials industry. Glenn Daehn, president of the ASM Materials Education Foundation.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

But the reality is that there are not enough people with this background in the edtech industry. The journey into the edtech industry is different for everyone. Another session examines the business of edtech, first by asking the class to read a seminal paper authored in 2007 (but still relevant to this day) about the industry.

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Biden’s infrastructure plan would create plenty of jobs, but who will do them?

The Hechinger Report

It’s an example of the huge demand for talent in industries that include wind power and other alternative energies — and the potential labor shortage facing President Joe Biden’s ambitious plan to upgrade the country’s infrastructure , after a years-long failure to train the kinds of workers needed to do it.

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