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edsurge | February 12, 2020

Another U.S. education technology company has reached the billion-dollar valuation mark, and with that comes bragging rights to being a “unicorn.” But its CEO winces when he hears the word. He really, really doesn’t want to talk about it. “I am careful about that term being the focus,” says Andrew Grauer, who co-founded Course Hero in 2006. The word, he notes, “can be backward looking. It becomes problematic if that’s the end goal.” Soft spoken yet...

Education Technology, Talent Development

PR Newswire | January 11, 2024

N2K Networks, a leader in strategic cyber workforce intelligence, is proud to announce its partnership with Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in cybersecurity. This collaboration will result in a comprehensive Cyber Talent Study that leverages skills data from the professional members of WiCyS, with an aim to deepen the collective understanding of cybersecurity competencies within the industry. Read More

edsurge | January 15, 2020

Two trends have helped to define the U.S. economy leading into 2020—equity market milestone after milestone plus a historically low labor pool. In 2019, the Dow Jones Industrial Average passed 28,000 points, the S&P 500 Index topped 3,000 points and the Nasdaq broke 9,000 in what some have termed one of the longest bull markets in history. At the same time, employers have sought third parties to help recruit top talent or develop it among existing employees. Economic factors outside em...

CenterPoint | February 11, 2020

Effective instructional systems include a high-quality curriculum and an aligned set of classroom assessments to monitor ongoing progress. Now, schools that use EL Education have the option of having interim assessments that were built specifically for use with the high-quality curriculum. CenterPoint’s web-based, curriculum-aligned, K-8 interim assessments mirror the EL Education Language Arts curriculum scope and sequence and were designed to complement the existing embedded formative as...