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4 ways to avoid cybersecurity snake oil

eSchool News

The cybersecurity industry is massive, representing literally thousands of vendors in the United States alone, with the global cybersecurity market staged to grow to over $350B by 2026. Or, at the very least, you may have wasted a lot of time going through the sales calls and budget analysis just to learn it’s not a good fit.

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Texas Education Agency Names Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready® Assessment as an Approved Grade 7 Reading Instrument

eSchool News

To receive approval, assessments must be based on current, published scientific research in reading, be age and grade-level appropriate, valid, and reliable, identify specific skill difficulties in word analysis, fluency, and comprehension, and assist the teacher in making individualized instructional decisions based on the assessment results.

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A Slow-Moving Storm: Why Demographic Changes Mean Tough Challenges for College Leaders

Edsurge

The financial crisis of 2008 was tough for the country, but the real impact will hit colleges in the year 2026. You found in your analysis what you describe as ‘birth dearth’ that started the time of the financial crisis. That could amount to a crisis for colleges, unless they start planning now. Could you talk a little about that?

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Presenting and participating in the EDUCAUSE 2015 conference

Bryan Alexander

We will cover a variety of leading-edge methods, including trend analysis, scenarios, the Delphi process, and environmental scanning. On Thursday (October 29) I’m presenting on Looking Ahead to 2026: Trends in Technology and Education. That’s on Tuesday, October 27th, from 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM Eastern time.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 4

The Hechinger Report

That’s according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, which tracks these things. Kirk: You’re talking about 2026, when we’ll see the number of 18-year-olds drop precipitously because no one was having babies in 2008, during the Great Recession. It’s not going to be less.

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EDUCAUSE 2015: my sessions and some observations

Bryan Alexander

9:30 – 10:15 Trend analysis (example: FTTE ). “ Looking Ahead to 2026: Trends in Technology and Education ” ( slides ) focused on trends other than technology, since the conference covered tech so extensively. 8:30 – 9:00 The Delphi process (example: the Horizon Report ). 9:00 – 9:30 Environmental scanning.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

.” For me, still framing my work that way – “top trends” – is a purposeful rhetorical move to shed light, to subvert, to offer a sly commentary of sorts on the shallowness of what passes as journalism, criticism, analysis. I’m not interested in making quickly thrown-together lists and bullet points.

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