October 07, 2019 by Jennifer
Jack Lynch is the CEO, President, and Director at HMH, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Lynch is an active member of the K-12 education industry.
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September 30, 2019 by Jennifer
This episode of LunchByte features host - Jill Abbott, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of ETIN as she speaks with Chris Domaleski.
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November 12, 2018 by Ashley
“. . . as education companies we can't just come up with a great product, show it to teachers, and expect to be successful. Our products and services have to help decision makers with their state and federal compliance and intricately defined funding requirements if we are going to be successful. If we don’t know what these are, we can’t get our products accepted.” — Mitch Weisburgh, Managing Partner, Academic Business Advisors
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September 12, 2018 by Jennifer
The CODiE Awards have recently announced the full slate of 2019 categories!
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In what can be compared to a modern-day technology sprint, California’s legislature introduced and passed far-reaching privacy legislation - the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) - in less than a week. The multi-year effort by privacy advocates, technology companies, network providers and others before introduction ended in the final push in the legislature was completed in the just six days.
This far-reaching legislation will have impact across many different business sectors when it goes into effect on January 1, 2020 requiring for-profit businesses, not just technology companies, to provide the consumer access to the personal information collected about her, the opportunity to delete the data, and to allow her the opportunity to opt-out of the sale of personal information to third parties (or, if under the age of 16, the ability to opt-in).
Much like the software development process, the California legislature has acknowledged the need to fix the “bugs” ...
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October 17, 2017 by Diane
The 21st Century job landscape so far has been characterized by the rise in high-tech jobs to support the digital landscape. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that there are currently over six million job openings in the United States due to the lack of applicants that possess necessary technical skills. With the increase in this type of job availability and the advent of automation, supporting career and technical education are becoming more important than ever.
Just last week, Google announced its new initiative called “Grow with Google” where it will spend $1 billion in grants to nonprofits who will train American workers and also help to grow American businesses. This announcement came in Pittsburgh, historic for its center as a manufacturing hub, showing its evolution into a major tech hub in the rust belt.
The billion dollars in grants will mainly support high-tech jobs in an effort to train workers to meet the skill requirements necessar ...
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