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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Maia Sharpley’s career in education includes serving in executive positions with the New York City Department of Education, Kaplan and Charter Schools USA. And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. Today, that foresight has come to pass.

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A Welder of Digital Curriculum Companies Buys Its Latest

Edsurge

One of them will be a complementary addition to Weld North’s portfolio: Odysseyware , a library of online courses covering career and technical education along with K-12 subjects, often used for intervention and credit recovery. Coincidentally, all three competitors are currently run by CEOs who previously worked at Kaplan, he noted.

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. “My Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. She motivates me a lot.”.

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Thursday's Microschool Summit - Stories of Starting Schools | Schedule Announced

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

While volunteering at an afterschool code club at the library, he got excited about the power of self-learning. Her broad experience in the education field has included sales, marketing and administrative positions with prominent companies such as Kaplan, Inc. He started a microschool around his kitchen table in January 2018.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” “ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. ” The Business of Student Loans.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. The NMC Horizon Report 2017 – the Library Edition.