Seeking to expand its education programs, the Apollo decided to dedicate one of its weekly Amateur Nights this year to New York City public school teachers.
Salesforce.org, the philanthropic arm of the San Francisco-based cloud computing company, is expanding its education funding from its home city to Oakland.
The Ocean, Coastal, and Watershed Education Act, which authorizes NOAA to expand its education programs, has passed committee and is moving on to the House floor, though no date is set for a vote.
The funding will enable the startup, Kim says, to meet the increasing demand its seeing from school districts across the country by further expanding its education consultant and support teams and expanding its technology partnerships.
With its new capital in tow, Coursera will begin making a significant push to expand its education platform abroad and to do so systematically through localization and translation and by developing strategic distribution partnerships with local institutions.
Pearson has been making a big push to expand its education, digital services, and testing programs in the United States and in Third World countries, but the problem may be that the company is way over-extended and cannot deliver on its promises.
The commission also says that under the leadership of Commissioner Patricia L. Gatling, a former Brooklyn prosecutor, it has expanded its public education role and obtained settlements totaling about $2 million in the past two years, compared with only $600,000 in the previous two.
For example, it has rapidly expanded its higher education system in recent years, and introduced a policy designed to shift the balance of subjects in all public universities away from the humanities and towards the sciences and technology, on a 70 30 basis.
To guide parents, Temple Shaari Emeth has expanded its family education program to include discussions about not only the religious ceremony but also the choices surrounding the party.
