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Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. The Business of Job Training. ” Via The New York Times : “At Walmart Academy , Training Better Managers. ” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.”

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Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” “The Saga of Ohio ’s Embattled E-School Is Coming to an End,” writes Education Week’s Ben Herold. ” Via The AP : “Man at New Mexico Compound Accused of Training Kids for School Attacks.”

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” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. The Business of Job Training (and Educational Benefits for Employees). Via Mashable : “The e-waste nightmare lurking in your kid’s toy box.” She wrote a blog post on Medium. Such a small world.

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For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Some Colleges Try to Burnish Student-Loan Default Rates.”

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” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. Elsevier has acquired Hivebench. According to Edsurge, the company makes “adaptive workplace software that helps individualize corporate training.”

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Wheeler supported e-Rate reform and “ net neutrality.” Campus Technology reports that “ Elsevier Debuts Metrics Tracking Journal Performance.” ” Meanwhile, “ Germany -wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access,” according to BoingBoing.