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What Happens When A Public University Buys a For-Profit Online One?

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And here’s the most surprising part: that online school it bought, Kaplan University, was a for-profit business—part of a sector that’s been criticized for high costs and poor outcomes for students. Kaplan University had been owned by Graham Holdings Company, which used to own the Washington Post until it sold it to Jeff Bezos.

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Weld North Education Acquires LearnZillion in Its First K-12 Core Curriculum Deal

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Since then, Weld North Education has acquired Glynlyon , which offers online K-12 courses for intervention and credit recovery, and Assessment Technology Inc. Then, the company worked on building a library of supplemental materials and instructional videos, many created by teachers it paid. LearnZillion had raised $32.5

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30 Hilarious Kid Jokes about School

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For instance, a seminal piece by Kaplan and Pascoe (1977), “Humorous Lectures and Humorous Examples: Some Effects upon Comprehension and Retention,” emphasizes that humor not only aids comprehension but also retention of material. Why did the student bring a ladder to the library? Further studies corroborate these findings.

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At Local Libraries, Teens Pursue – and Publish – Their Passions

Educator Innovator

Rachel Kaplan, a 16-year-old from Northbrook, Ill., Both teens followed their passions at the library, during Teen Tech Week 2014. This year, Teen Tech Week took on a DIY theme, and libraries across the country offered high- and low-tech avenues for teens to create their own projects. By Maureen Kelleher.

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

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This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Maia Sharpley’s career in education includes serving in executive positions with the New York City Department of Education, Kaplan and Charter Schools USA. Our higher education system formed around libraries.

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A Welder of Digital Curriculum Companies Buys Its Latest

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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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Education Technology, Betsy DeVos, and the Innovation Gospel

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Media Source, a company with several library-related products, including the publication School Library Journal. There are other powerful relationships too – as I’m investigating as part of my Spencer Education Fellowship, education technology’s political and financial networks are vast.