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White supremacist Richard Spencer will speak at the University of Florida , which says it will spend $500,000 on security for the event. ” Via EdScoop : “ USC launches edtech research center focused on underrepresented youth.” Via Edsurge : “NYC Keeps Its Edtech Accelerator Revving With New Funders and Markets.”

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The only other media attending the event would be a national crew from ABC.” Tutoring company Topica Edtech Group has raised $50 million from Northstar Group. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. It could only observe. ” Immigration and Education. Venture Capital and the Business of Education.

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” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” It’s just a bunch of video-taped lectures for the (offline) “ Startup School ” event that the startup incubator program runs at Stanford (which is really just a series of short talks by entrepreneurs and founders).

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Here’s Edsurge’s take on the AEI event. I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review. Anyway, here’s Richard Smith on Elsevier and “A Big Brother future for science publishing.” .” Here are the “Prepared Remarks by U.S.

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” Via Knox News : “ White nationalist talk at UT draws about 45 and 250 protesters for peaceful event.” Via Edsurge : “ Jefferson Education Accelerator Winds Down, Rebrands to Focus on Edtech Reviews and Procurement.” blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.”

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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. The New York Times covers its own recent education event : “Educators Discuss the Future of Higher Education.” Elsevier has acquired Hivebench.