Mr. Harkin voiced skepticism that the current accreditation system was up to the challenge of overseeing multistate, billion-dollar education businesses.
As Texas schools whittle their budgets in response to the state's multibillion dollar education cuts, they are eyeing every expenditure, from athletics to busing and even field trips.
No, it's not big money in the city's multi-billion dollar education budget, but its implementation is producing a few weird results.
And therein lies an important lesson for this new generation of education-focused entrepreneurs: Building a billion dollar education business doesn't happen overnight, it happens over decades.
He sees the internet as making an irresistible impact on education, in the way it has in other industries, with a few giants emerging to dominate the multi-trillion dollar education market.
Profiteers eyeing the multi-billion dollar education "market" condition their success on convincing the public that teachers and their unions are "problems" that they can solve with their get-tough approach.
Recognizing this potential to transform the way we learn and the billion dollar education economy, Cisco Consulting Services (CCS) and the Cisco Europe/Middle East/Africa region education team have examined the potential and value of the IoE in education across four fundamental pillars: PEOPLE, PROCESS, DATA and THINGS.
Education, in fact, is one of the keys to giving traumatized children a sense of normality – and UNICEF and USAID have come to this child friendly space to announce a US$17 million dollar education in emergencies joint project that will benefit 150,000 children in the conflict-affected areas of South Sudan.
Throwing more public dollars at education and training won't be enough to connect willing workers to open jobs.
"This is a society where women are second-class citizens, yet at the same time they poured millions of dollars into Education City, where the sexes mix and where women get a very hard-edged education.
