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Ringleader of Admissions Scam Also Ran a College Counseling Firm For Families in China

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higher education. Singer led a for-profit college counseling business called The Edge College & Career Network, LLC., Among Singer’s other ventures was a college counseling operation aimed at students in China applying to selective colleges in the U.S. Some parents paid millions of dollars for the services.

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IXL Learning Acquires Teachers Pay Teachers, the World’s Largest Platform for Educator-Created Content

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Evercore served as financial advisor and Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal counsel to IXL Learning. Choate, Hall and Stewart LLP served as legal counsel to Teachers Pay Teachers. More than 7 million educators—including 85% of PK-12 U.S. teachers—use TPT to save time, engage students and learn from each other.

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Storefront Advising Programs Bring Free College Counseling Into Low-Income Communities

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Bringing College Access Into Communities Community-based college advising centers get a lot of foot traffic through one-on-one counseling sessions and group workshops. “He really wanted to go directly to the university, and it’s the first time he realized he could,” Seydel says.

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Tech-less teaching methods could alienate tech-savvy Gen Zs

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So far, discussions have been dominated by UNESCO’s recent counsel calling on schools to ban mobile phones. Technologies such as augmented reality (AR) have already proven themselves catalysts for learning, rather than the distractions that many organizations and schools tend to perceive them as. This has been known for many years now.

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States Issue Privacy Ultimatums to Education Technology Vendors

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Unintended Consequences At a recent SXSW EDU session, Amelia Vance, the director of the Education Privacy Project for the Future of Privacy Forum , was forthright about the challenges the law posed for districts. I get an email a day from district tech directors asking about Google.

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Amid Campus Mental Health Crisis, Students Work to Support Each Other

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Alyssa Parks first made an appointment at the counseling center at Marshall University thanks to her roommate. There is a stigma about that topic, and I think it’s getting better, but sometimes it’s nerve-wracking if you’ve never been to the counseling center.” Alyssa Parks. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC.

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5 goals, 5 barriers of digital curriculum

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School district leaders’ top objective in transitioning to a digital curriculum is to achieve greater instructor effectiveness, according to a survey from The Learning Counsel. ” The survey was sponsored by Sprint. Material from a press release was used in this report.