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“​ Pearson to Lay Off 3,000 More Employees,” says Edsurge. ” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” ISTE has hired Joseph South as its Chief Learning Officer. South previously worked at the US Department of Education and K12 Inc. The Business of Job Training.

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Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. ” The publishers in question are Cengage , McGraw-Hill , and Pearson. The History of Pearson.

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” Speaking of Peter Thiel, “ Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook fake news didn’t sway election,” USA Today reports from the Techonomy conference. ” From the press release : “ Jisc Collections and Elsevier Sign Landmark UK Agreement, Securing Access to Research Publications and Initiating Open Science Collaboration.”

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” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.” ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference.

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And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” Via The Verge : “Lawsuit claims Facebook illegally scanned private messages.” “ Pearson gets emergency test scoring contract from Tennessee ,” Chalkbeat reports.

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Via The New York Times : “Turn Off Messenger Kids , Health Experts Plead to Facebook.” Via Techcrunch : “ Pearson is adding LittleBits kits to its STEM curriculum.” ” That’s former Pearson exec Larry Singer , who now runs Open Up Resources. .” The company, which has raised some $107.4

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His Facebook post: “All I can say is, Trump was elected two days ago and we already have actual white flour American rolls in the lunchroom instead of the Communist wheat bread that’s been served for the past few years.” Campus Technology reports that “ Elsevier Debuts Metrics Tracking Journal Performance.”