Sentences with phrase «made education platform»

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In 2012, Apple held an event in New York City to talk about education, where it unveiled its iBooks 2 platform, its tool for making and publishing books online, but even that event was all about the iPad.

The Dojo is a resource library and education platform teaching gamers how to make a living in the gaming industry.

«We felt like the funding from this pack could have the greatest impact by making it possible for more women to get an education in those fields, and by giving them a platform to share their work and their passion for science.»

The tools required to make a business are available to everyone for relatively little or no cost: website creation, advertising and marketing education, online programs that teach you how to code within a relatively short amount of time and platforms that help you run your business more smoothly.

«We really believe in the endless possibilities of blockchain and cryptocurrency to change the world, and we want to play an integral role in making them part of the mainstream, through education and meaningful collaboration on our platform.»

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

A new virtual platform has been created by NTOK.io for the sole purpose of making education accessible to everyone all over the world.

Promised to make addressing homophobic bullying a «top priority» during her leadership race, and then released an education platform that had no mention of fighting homophobia or transphobia.

About Social Venture Connexion SVX (@theSVX) is a full service impact investing platform that connects impact ventures and funds with accredited investors looking to make investments with demonstrable social and / or environmental impact and the potential for financial return, from nonprofit education projects to health ventures focused on early cancer detection.

The governor has not yet made clear his education platform for this year, though he has indicated he will follow recommendations made by the common core task force that he empaneled in September and received a report from in December.

Local State Senate candidate Sara Niccoli, a young mother who has made education reform a key plank of her campaign platform, responded to Elia's comments in a letter released on the first of September.

The Education Secretary used his appearance as a platform - to make the case that new laws and regulation, the course clearly favoured by the Judge himself, won't solve media evils and could imperil free speech and, therefore, the free society.

What PCAST is saying is that between NSF and ED, in order to deliver on the extraordinary promise of education tech, we should be investing in platforms that make it easier for someone to design a great course.

This suggests that online yoga education platforms may provide a useful option for those with limited access to appropriate therapeutic yoga classes, or with physical or medical restrictions that make travel or mobility difficult.

Bush had made «accountability» a cornerstone of his education platform, using his stated goal of ensuring equity for poor and minority children as a way of bolstering his credentials as a moderate.

Apple made significant changes to the iOS platform with its announcement of iOS 9.3 which bought several education specific features such as allowing for the sharing of devices across several students, a classroom application which will provide in class control of devices, and managed Apple IDs which can be created in bulk and managed by the school district.

EPE believes that the diversification of its revenue sources — including subscriptions, other paid content, advertising, and foundation grants — is a guarantor of independent decision - making by Education Week across its print, digital, and video platforms, as well as a wise business strategy that best ensures the long - term sustainability of the organization's editorial mission and independence.

Essentially, iOS 10 is the culmination of several iterations over the last few years to make the iPad platform what education has really needed.

By enriching the Alimentarium Academy online educational platform with new resources for the younger population, the Alimentarium and Discovery Education are together making an important contribution to raising consciousness worldwide for more informed choices from an early age.»

From real - time monitoring to internet metering and safeguarding tools including keyword alerting (education edition only), technicians can now gain a complete overview of all activity — regardless of platform — and gather data on how their technology is being used which will aid informed decision making in the future.

In Commentary, Sohrab Ahmari makes the case that Teach for America, once a leading light of the education reform movement, has now «transformed itself into an arm of the progressive movement» and «functions as a platform for radical identity politics.»

This year, however, the GOP platform makes clear that there should be as little federal involvement in education as possible.

Schools, local authorities and regional education consortia will be contacted to ensure they are ready to take advantage of the new digital tools and can make the transition from the Hwb + platform next year.

The program, which aims to make school more relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in remote areas, uses a local Indigenous knowledge base to engage students with their own culture, identity and place, and then uses that as a platform for wider education.

Responding to NSPCC's calls for compulsory online safety lessons to become part of the curriculum, Darren Millar, Welsh Conservative Shadow Secretary for Education and Children, said: «Online social media platforms can be an open door for tech savvy offenders to make contact with children, who are all too often unaware of the sinister intentions which lie behind an innocuous exchange.

Along with the launch of the contest, GoFundMe recently released statistics showing that students, teachers, and parents in the UK are increasingly turning to the site to raise money for education expenses, making it one of the fastest growing categories on the platform in the past year.

The notion of portable funding to expand school choice has been backed by conservatives like former Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who made it a big part of his education platform in 2012.

On Thursday, May 5 at 5:30, the Harvard Graduate School of Education will host an event about a new online personalized learning platform that is being made available to schools for free.

Platforms like LiveTiles Mosaic streamlines this technology integration, making it so that peace education can be accessible to all students.

The Make Your World Bigger videos were drawn from Discovery Education Espresso's digital learning service — an award - winning platform used by over 1.8 million pupils across the UK.

The endorsed slate, which ran on a platform of support for the corporate education reform industry, went down to a stunning defeat against a challenge slate made up of local Democrats who support local teachers, local schools and local public education.

From 2007 — 2015, Nashville's education landscape benefited from a mayor who campaigned on an education first platform and actually made good on his promises.

About Weld North Holdings LLC Weld North operates a platform of digital and SaaS educational solution businesses and makes control investments in high potential businesses in the education industry.

President George W. Bush holds up the law as the centerpiece of his education platform and a critical step in making schools more accountable and students more successful.

With the tremendous amount of EdTech (education technology) tools and platforms out there, eLearning resources becomes a key player in making big changes and advancement to the face of education.

Her visible position as the head of the Department of Education provides her with an important platform (aka bully pulpit) to advance her agenda of privatization, but even if she can convince Congress, she will still need to make her case with the states.

In October, Maker Ed announced the launch of a set of free, online, self - paced professional development modules titled, «Getting Started with Making,» In partnership with Digital Promise and their micro-credential platform, we released this set of six maker education micro-credentials as a starting point for educators who want to showcase their expertise in mMaking,» In partnership with Digital Promise and their micro-credential platform, we released this set of six maker education micro-credentials as a starting point for educators who want to showcase their expertise in makingmaking.

and their micro-credential platform, we released this set of six maker education micro-credentials as a starting point for educators who want to showcase their expertise in making.

As the Education Chair of the NAACP Muncie Chapter, Unit 3063, DiLynn Phelps states, «The membership recognizes that Muncie Community Schools has made, and is making, extraordinary contributions to the education of children thus providing them the platform from which to become fully productive members ofEducation Chair of the NAACP Muncie Chapter, Unit 3063, DiLynn Phelps states, «The membership recognizes that Muncie Community Schools has made, and is making, extraordinary contributions to the education of children thus providing them the platform from which to become fully productive members ofeducation of children thus providing them the platform from which to become fully productive members of society.

The Graduate School of Education officially launched on Monday its Usable Knowledge project, an online platform aimed at making the school's research and work accessible to all educators, students, and policymakers.

Her platform, which included the embrace of education traditionalism (symbolized by her close working relationship with the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) as well as the rejection of the systemic reforms embraced and advanced fitfully by Obama, also made her unattractive to wide swaths of those who would have votededucation traditionalism (symbolized by her close working relationship with the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) as well as the rejection of the systemic reforms embraced and advanced fitfully by Obama, also made her unattractive to wide swaths of those who would have votedEducation Association and American Federation of Teachers) as well as the rejection of the systemic reforms embraced and advanced fitfully by Obama, also made her unattractive to wide swaths of those who would have voted for her.

The platform will now read: «We oppose making Colorado's public schools private or run by private corporations or becoming segregated again through lobbying and campaigning efforts of the organization called Democrats for Education Reform and demand that they immediately stop using the party's name Democrat in their name.»

Unlike the Democratic Party platform, the Republican Party platform makes no explicit reference to the education of ELLs.

An education platform that includes all American children will make not only for good policy, but broad appeal.

This desire to impose an English First approach not only contradicts the research that illustrates the benefits of bilingual education but also contradicts the platform's stance that parents, not the government, should be the ones empowered to make educational decisions for their children.

The pro-charter camp also suffered set backs at the Democratic National Convention this summer when the education portion of the platform was amended with language explicitly supporting democratically governed public schools and making some actual demands of charter schools:

Through his role as Chief Executive Officer of New Schools for Chicago, Daniel Anello is creating a platform for parents and students to make school quality so resonant that decision - makers are compelled to support education policy that prioritizes the interests of children rather than the adults.

He makes a cogent and convincing argument that building Networked Universities will allow individual institutions to maintain, and perhaps even strengthen, their independent missions, all while building platforms for solving some of higher education's toughest problems.

Education - based initiatives like Worldreader and the mobile book platform OkadaBooks will make an increasing difference in the years to come.

Udemy is an education platform that makes it easy for people to host and take online video courses.