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2U | June 23, 2020

Education technology company 2U will offer scholarships of $2,500 each to "Black, Latino, and Indigenous learners, as well as women," to attend online technical training programs. According to the company’s June 10 statement, it will provide the scholarships, totaling $3 million, to candidates demonstrating "both need and merit." 2U said the program is specifically for individuals from underrepresented groups enduring financial hardship or who lost their jobs.The ...

prnewswire | April 23, 2020

Develop.com is a new global online learning platform that provides access to career-boosting courses for technology professionals which enables them to become lifelong learners, take control of their career, and reach their full potential. Develop provides high-quality courses across the most important and relevant areas of business and technology, at prices accessible to more people than ever before."The need for competent, highly-skilled technology professionals has never been greater tha...

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...

edsurge | February 20, 2020

It’s no secret that voice-enabled technology is taking off in the domestic sphere, but how is this increasingly robust technology impacting education? To find out, we talked to Marissa Mierow, who leads Alexa Education at Amazon, delivering innovative experiences for both students and developers focused on education technology. Marissa's passion for education came early in her career when she was producing "edutainment" CD-ROM products for The Learning Company. It grew as she...