November 2010
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News Corp. Buys Wireless Generation for $360... →
What on the surface may look like a curious purchase could prove to represent great foresight on the part of News Corp considering that other media companies such as the Washington Post generate the majority of their revenue from their education subsidiary, Kaplan.
Although Wireless Generation is an education technology company and not a university, their area of expertise is in another high...
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Online Learning Is Growing on Campus - NYTimes.com →
If colleges want to make a mixture of online and face-to-face classes work on a traditional campus, they will need to do more than simply offer students the option of showing up in person, or offering “lightning round” quizzes to prevent cheating. These things represent the bare minimum and really only work to serve the University and their interests, as opposed to the paying...
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Moody's lowers its rating on debt of Washington... →
One may wonder how this is related to education, but this “negative” outlook is directly caused by the anticipated affect that changes to the Department of Education’s guidelines regarding financial aid will hurt Kaplan, the Newspaper’s most profitable subsidiary.
Overall, new requirements that will curb how much in loan money student’s can take and how much...