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The Education Department (ED) is discharging $500 million in student loan debt held by 18,000 borrowers who had been defrauded by now-defunct for-profit chain ITT Tech, a sign that the Biden administration is working to address the borrower defense backlog.  “Our action today will give thousands of borrowers a fresh start and the relief they deserve after ITT repeatedly lied to them,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. “Today’s action is part of the Biden-Harris… Source link

The New York Times Prosecutors Investigating Whether Ukrainians Meddled in 2020 Election Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have been investigating whether several Ukrainian officials helped orchestrate a wide-ranging plan to meddle in the 2020 presidential campaign, including using Rudy Giuliani to spread their misleading claims about President Joe Biden and tilt the election in Donald Trump’s favor, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The criminal investigation, which began… Source link

An Education Department (ED) secretary during the George W. Bush administration said she was opposed to student debt cancellation and free community college because those policies would distort the value and price of post-secondary education credentials. “We need to empower consumers with better information about how much they spend and what the value of it is in the marketplace,” former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We need to reward… Source link

The New York Times NFTs Are Selling for Millions. Are They Warming the Planet, Too? When Chris Precht, an Austrian architect and artist, first learned about nonfungible tokens, the digital collectibles taking the art world by storm, he was so enthralled, he said, he “felt like a little kid again.” So Precht, who is known for his work on ecological architecture, was devastated to learn that the artworks, known as NFTs, have an environmental footprint as mind-boggling as the gold-rush frenzy… Source link

Business Report Publisher Rolfe McCollister used to joke that if Google ever started giving diplomas, colleges were in trouble. But now with Google parent company Alphabet’s latest announcements, it’s really happening.  A March 11 report from Inc. features an interview with Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who details Google’s plans to launch a series of certificate programs aimed at helping people bridge skills gaps and get jobs in high-growth fields without a college… Source link

Yesterday, Yahoo announced that it was shutting down the internet’s weirdest repository of questions, Yahoo Answers. After having a good run for 16 years, the site will be inaccessible from May 4. For me, Yahoo Answers was more than an outlet with weird questions like “how is babby formed?” or “Is it okay to boil headphones?” I come from the land of Kama Sutra, and as exotic as that sounds, my country isn’t very fond of promoting sex education in schools. Sex is still a taboo… Source link

Practice Problem Rich Results Math Solvers Rich Results New Reports in Search Console Google is adding support for a new type of schema markup with the introduction of rich results for education sites. Websites that provide content such as practice problems and math solver pages can use structured data to become eligible for the new rich results. Google says practice problems and math assistance are the most requested content types from students ever since school was disrupted due to the COVID-19… Source link

Eleven state financial regulators are calling on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to rescind Trump-era regulations that they say are insulating student loan servicers from more oversight. The consumer protection agencies from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin are asking Cardona to reverse what they call “unnecessary and legally dubious” guidelines under former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos… Source link

Google today introduced a suite of updates for its online education tools whose adoption and further development have been accelerated by the pandemic, including Google Classroom, Google Meet and the next generation of G Suite for Education, now rebranded as Google Workspace for Education. In total, Google is promising more than 50 new features across its education products, with a focus on meeting educators’ and admins’ needs, in particular, in addition to those of the… Source link

Google is announcing a swath of new features for its education-focused products today, including that G Suite for Education is being rebranded to Google Workspace for Education. The company first unveiled the Workspace branding for its office apps suite in October, but the education-focused suite had retained the G Suite branding until now. Among other changes to the different tiers, the free edition of G Suite for Education is being renamed to Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals… Source link