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eMind will become part of Kaplan Professional’s Dearborn Financial Services unit. Dearborn provides education and compliance solutions to financial services companies and individuals.Read the Full Story
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested $2.3 billion since 2000 in new visions of education, with smaller schools and more personalized instruction to prepare young people for the working world and post-high school learning.Read the Full Story
CHICAGO, May 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — eCollege(R) (Nasdaq: ECLG), a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education industry, today announced it achieved record revenue of $23.8 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2005, up 21 percent from $19.6 million for the first quarter of 2004.Read the Full Story
“Deaf students! If they can’t hear, we want them to at least see,” 17-year-old Quetzabel Conrique said Tuesday as she read a teacher’s application for PowerPoint software and an LCD projector worth $2,500.Read the Full Story
Instead, the public charter school started with more than 500 and has grown to nearly 3,000, setting off a statewide phenomenon in the process.Read the Full Story
States and school districts are spending millions of dollars to build online student-data systems that will offer teachers what policymakers hope will be the information needed to craft clear-cut strategies for raising achievement. The biggest impetus for putting money into such data systems is arguably the expansive reporting requirements and ambitious student-achievement goals set forth […]
Minnesota-based underwriters took just 12 companies public, less than half the number in the fourth quarter of 2004.Read the Full Story
There are great deals to be had searching for college textbooks over the internet, Hendricks said. She got one textbook, How to Think Straight About Psychology, which normally costs about $40 for just $5–used–through Amazon.com. Read the Full Story
Though it was unclear at press time exactly how this union of print and online publishing software giants would affect each company’s respective products, one thing is for sure: The deal is bound to have an impact on teachers and students at all levels of education.Read the Full Story
While the $3.4 billion acquisition may not set any records in terms of its size, it marks the end of one era and the beginning of a new one for Web developers and designers who have watched Macromedia and Adobe increasingly compete for their loyalty over the years.Read the Full Story
