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Helpful or a Hindrance? Congress Hears About the Role of Accreditation and Online Partnerships

By Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed Syndicated News A one-hour phone conversation between officials at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a regional accreditor was necessary for the creation of one of the biggest developments in the MOOC craze. Whether that discussion was a regulatory burden or a courtesy call depends on whom you ask. […]

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L.A. school board approves $113M budget for training in new Common Core curriculum

The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved a proposal to spend $113 million to implement new learning standards, an issue that became surprisingly controversial and contributed to the resignation of the district’s No. 2 administrator. The plan for the money launched a protracted discussion that spanned three meetings and three weeks. The purpose

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Business Executives Push Common Core Hard: Is it Moving?

Business executives from a variety of fields continued a high-profile push to support the Common Core State Standards at an event in Washington today hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, stressing the importance of the standards to students’ ability to transition from school to the labor market and to improving the country’s

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Twitter launches Twitter University to build better employees, buys company to help

Kris Kesiak Photography August 13, 2013 12:17 PM John Koetsier Add a Comment inShare22 Twitter announced a new internal learning initiative today, Twitter University, to give its employees better skills. And the fast-growing social network bought a company to help make it happen. “We want Twitter to be the best place in the world for

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In Digital Transition, Electronic Media Soars as Textbooks Lose Footing in PreK-12 Market, According to Latest Report by Simba Information

The PreK-12 publishing market is in the midst of a transition as schools invest more in a digital future and instructional software providers embrace new opportunities with the rising appeal in digital courseware. The PreK-12 market shows signs of strong growth for digital courseware, which generated sales of $1.2 billion, and captured market share of

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Amazon restricts students from bringing certain textbook rentals…

August 16, 2013 By Lauren Ingeno Students who rent textbooks through Amazon.com’s Warehouse Deals, Inc. may be unknowingly agreeing to an unusual condition: They are not permitted to cross state borders with their books. According to the Textbook Rental Terms and Conditions page on Amazon.com, when renting through Warehouse Deals, which is an Amazon subsidiary,

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Bezos’ Purchase of the Post Leaves Graham With Kaplan For-Profit College

Posted: 08/06/2013 2:06 pm Among the many questions raised by Jeff Bezos’s purchase of the Washington Post newspaper is: What will become of the rest of the old Washington Post Company, publicly traded and run by the Graham family? The fact is that the Post Company was already dominated, in several respects, by its lucrative

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Setting Limits for Outsourcing Online – Accreditor shuts down Ivy Bridge College

August 5, 2013 By Paul Fain The shuttering of Ivy Bridge College could dump cold water on the online aspirations of some colleges, particularly ones that prefer to play it safe with their regional accreditor. A growing number of colleges are teaming up with outside firms to ramp up their online offerings. Those unaccredited partners

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