The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced today that the Val Verde Unified School District in California has entered into a resolution agreement to ensure the district’s compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 when responding to notice of sexual harassment of its students by other students […]
The U.S. Department of Education’s (Department’s) office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) announced it has signed contracts with five companies to modernize and enhance loan servicing for more than 37 million borrowers with federally managed loans. Central Research, Inc.; EdFinancial Services; Maximus Education, LLC; Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA); and Nelnet Diversified Solutions received […]
WASHINGTON, May 14, 2022 — Gallaudet University celebrated the achievements of over 400 undergraduate and graduate students as they received their degrees during the University’s 152nd Commencement ceremony in the Field House on the school’s Washington, D.C. campus. Gallaudet is the only university in the world where deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing students live […]
NEW YORK, 29 October 2021 / PRN Africa / — More than half, or 102 million, are students in 14 countries which either fully or partially closed their classrooms for at least half of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Remote Learning Readiness Index. “Even in the midst of an ongoing emergency, we know there […]
CINCINNATI, April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Abre.io (Abre), K–12’s leading administration platform provider, and Pay Theory, a Family Tech company that provides payment solutions for school districts, childcare, and families, announce their partnership to help them better achieve their shared mission of breaking down socioeconomic and technical barriers to education. Cincinnati Startups Abre and Pay […]
EXTON, Pa., April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh USA, Inc. today unveiled the Ricoh Scholars Program for Clemson University graduate students continuing their science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) education at the university after attending a Historically Black College or University (HBCU). The program will award $80,000 over the course of four years to outstanding, […]
SAN MATEO, Calif., April 6, 2021 — IXL Learning, the K-12 personalized learning product used by more than 12 million students, now offers an integration with Schoology, a popular learning management system used in 60,000 schools. The integration creates a fluid experience for educators utilizing Schoology and IXL’s award-winning platform to deliver individualized instruction to […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Online learning offers the opportunity to engage a much broader set of students with different learning styles, and to potentially supercharge outcomes. A new study led by Andrew W. Lo, Professor of Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Principal Investigator at the MIT Computer Science and […]
MUMBAI, India, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — In the era of digital advancement, the demand for higher education is making a quantum leap. A country with a million+ of digital users, India will create more value by emerging digital ecosystems driving an opportunity to transform education across systems. Here, Jaro Education and IIM Kozhikode bring […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced today the call for nominations for the Presidential Cybersecurity Education Award, which honors two K-12 educators for excellence in cybersecurity education. Now in its second year, the Presidential Cybersecurity Education Award is presented annually to one elementary educator and one secondary educator who instill in their […]
