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• Intelius CEO Naveen Jain to Energize Lunar Thinking at Spirit of Innovation Summit
• Jenzabar Delivers Cloud-Based Recruitment Solution
• Robo-readers: the new teachers' helper in the U.S.
• Pennsylvania State Police Barracks in Jeopardy
• Chicago Schools Face $700 Million Budget Gap for 2013
• Launch of New Charter University Enables Students To Earn 4-Year Degrees For Less than the Cost of a Year’s Tuition at Most Colleges
• VITEC Provides Encoding Platform Used for Video Streaming to Reach 112 Colleges over the Internet
• At the Table: 3 generations of Latvians participate in the final Sunday Supper
• T-Mobile Helping to Advance Mobile Learning and Digital Education for K-12 Schools in the U.S.
• Huron Consulting Group Launches Subscription-Based ecrt Model and ecrt 4.0 to Address Effort Reporting Certification in Higher Education

Intelius CEO Naveen Jain to Energize Lunar Thinking at Spirit of Innovation Summit Posted: Intelius CEO Naveen Jain does not shy away from a challenge and nowhere is that more apparent than his mission to put a robot on the moon. Jain will energize a new generation of lunar thinking with some of the most talented and promising high school students at the Spirit of Innovation Summit on March 29. Jain will share his vision of innovative thinking as he joins young entrepreneurs and their teachers in a collaborative quest to build progressive technologies and solve global challenges.

Jenzabar Delivers Cloud-Based Recruitment Solution Posted: Jenzabar®, Inc., a leading provider of software, strategies and services for higher education, has announced today a corporate direction aimed at strengthening its strategic enrollment management solution through a new offering, Jenzabar Recruitment Manager™ (JRM).

Robo-readers: the new teachers' helper in the U.S. Posted: (Reuters) - American high school students are terrible writers, and one education reform group thinks it has an answer: robots. Or, more accurately, robo-readers - computers programmed to scan student essays and spit out a grade. The theory is that teachers would assign more writing if they didn't have to read it. And the more writing students do, the better at it they'll become - even if the primary audience for their prose is a string of algorithms. That sounds logical to Mark Shermis, dean of the College of Education at the University of Akron. ...

Pennsylvania State Police Barracks in Jeopardy Posted: When Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett proposed his budget for the new fiscal year that starts in July, many were outraged by the potential of higher college tuition from cuts to secondary education funding, as reported by CBS Philly. However, a new hurdle has recently come to light over the belt-tightening actions from the Republican governor. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that the number of Pennsylvania state police troopers will reach a dangerously low level unless additional funding is directed to training new recruits.

Chicago Schools Face $700 Million Budget Gap for 2013 Posted: According to NBC Chicago, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is facing an estimated $700 million budget gap for fiscal year 2013. The announcement came after the CPS board met on Wednesday to talk about the major budget shortfall. Additionally, it is estimated that the CPS budget gap will only widen to about $1 billion by 2014. These numbers come even after CPS made numerous changes last year, including cutting jobs and restructuring various areas of the department to increase efficiency, in hopes of reducing the budget deficit.

Launch of New Charter University Enables Students To Earn 4-Year Degrees For Less than the Cost of a Year’s Tuition at Most Colleges Posted: The need for higher education has never been greater, but it has never been more out of reach for millions of Americans. Adult and other nontraditional learners, who comprise 75 percent of higher education students, have few options to earn degrees that employers will value without taking on enormous debt. Rising tuition prices and demand for higher education have pushed U.S. student debt to over $1 trillion—a sum bigger than the nation's credit-card debt, its auto loan debt and its entire trade deficit.

VITEC Provides Encoding Platform Used for Video Streaming to Reach 112 Colleges over the Internet Posted: VITEC, a worldwide leader in advanced digital video solutions, today announced it has deployed it's Optibase MGWx100 platform in the California Community Colleges Chancellors offices in Sacramento enabling video feeds from Sacramento to stream over the Internet to Palomar College in San Marcos which are then recorded and streamed over the Internet to all Community Colleges in California, consisting of 112 Higher education learning institutions in 72 districts, being the largest in the nation.

At the Table: 3 generations of Latvians participate in the final Sunday Supper Posted: Editor's Note: At the Table is an international exchange program that connects high school students in Philadelphia and Riga. The program, undertaken by the National Constitution Center in collaboration with the National History Museum of Latvia, hosted "Sunday Suppers" in…

T-Mobile Helping to Advance Mobile Learning and Digital Education for K-12 Schools in the U.S. Posted: Today, T-Mobile USA, Inc. underscored its commitment to make widespread mobile learning a reality as T-Mobile President and CEO Philipp Humm participates in an executive digital learning summit hosted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Department of Education today in Washington, D.C. Showcasing its support for mobile learning and digital education, T-Mobile announced successful programs in several U.S. ...

Huron Consulting Group Launches Subscription-Based ecrt Model and ecrt 4.0 to Address Effort Reporting Certification in Higher Education Posted: Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business consulting services, today announced the launch of a new, subscription-based model of its ecrt® solution. Huron's web-based ecrt solution effectively manages effort reporting commitments, cost sharing, and certification for higher education and academic research institutions.

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