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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

Edsurge

acquired Wireless Generation in 2010, then made ambitious bets on devices, curriculum, and games. A friend recently read a 2004 Harvard Business School case study of Wireless Generation’s work in Montgomery County, Maryland, and responded: “Thanks! We wound up having two unusual exits. The company was renamed “Amplify.”

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‘They just saw me as a dollar sign’: How some certificate schools profit from vulnerable students

The Hechinger Report

Back then, in 2010, she was 22 and her plan was to find a good job and move out of that small three-bedroom house in Hudson, Massachusetts. The suit also alleged that Premier had misled potential students about job placement rates and pressured staff to “renounce all academic standards.”. . – The timing seemed fortuitous.

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