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“This new Web site—http://www.ope.ed.gov/accreditation/—is an important tool to combat the growing industry of diploma mills that scam unsuspecting consumers and employers by offering fraudulent degrees,” said Assistant Secretary of Education Sally Stroup. “On behalf of Secretary Spellings, I would like to thank Senator Collins and Congressmen Boehner, Castle, Davis and McKeon for their support. This […]
This year, the General Assembly is no different, with legislators filing about 30 bills concerning education by the end of the eighth working day of the legislative session. The state Senate has passed two bills this year, both dealing with schools.Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON, Feb 02, 2005 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB), the leading provider of e-Learning software and services to more than 2,000 universities and K-12 schools worldwide, has named the Pappas Group (http://www.pappasgroup.com) as its marketing communications agency of record.Read the Full Story
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 2, 2005–OneTouch Systems(TM), whose interactive distance learning (IDL) solutions enhance measurable employee performance, participation and accountability across an organization, today announced that it has named Bill Haughton as Vice President of Sales. In this capacity, Haughton will be responsible for the company’s worldwide sales operations and reseller channel strategy activities. Read […]
Since its founding in 1987, USDLA has consistently emphasized the importance of professional growth within the distance education community. The DLAB program is a logical next step toward that goal, both by advancing the industry and enhancing USDLA.Read the Full Story
The online hearings — called “Your Voice, Your Schools” — will run from Feb. 1 through Feb. 15 and posted information will be used to help a special 13-member Commission on the Campaign for Fiscal Equity prepare a report for the City Council. Read the Full Story
“The proposed combination of the largest and second largest telephone providers in SBC’s 13-state region raises obvious antitrust concerns that regulatory authorities will have to scrutinize carefully. Cable companies, other phone competitors, consumers and business users alike have a vital interest in ensuring that this new telco behemoth does not act anticompetitively to thwart emerging […]
“The antitrust analysis will focus on the horizontal aspects of the merger in the enterprise market,” said PFF President Ray Gifford. “This once would have been a vertical merger for SBC into the long distance market, but that market is rapidly disappearing altogether.Read the Full Story
The agreement comes as the FCC is considering digital carriage for all of broadcasting, the expected bid by Comcast and Time Warner to jointly control even more of cable (by acquiring parts of Adelphia), and an ongoing review at the FCC of cable ownership limits.Read the Full Story
There’s just a middle-age man who sits at a computer in a tiny, undecorated, windowless office in the basement of a downtown building. Read the Full Story