Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The DDD student staff people work half days at DDD, proofing textbooks to make them accessible to students with print disabilities. Phab is on a mission: she believes strongly that she is building her country by helping her students acquire the skills they will use to help advance Laos in the future.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a nonprofit management student, preparing to enter this field can be challenging because it’s still developing. As the sector evolves, students aren’t always sure which available resources are the most sound to support our studies. Philanthropy News Digest . GuideStar . Candid’s GuideStar platform includes over 2.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. It claims that international students using its platform have now received scholarships and grants worth $10.3

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Texas A&M University has brought AR/VR production into its celebrated Visualization program , letting students learn to build state-of-the-art virtual productions before they leave college. It soon established a permanent venue in New York. And other organizations are using AR/VR itself for educational purposes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

CEO and co-founder Aaron Feuer did say the company now serves 13 million students in 23,000 schools across the United States, which means that 25% of American students are enrolled in a district served by Panorama today. . In a nutshell, the SaaS business surveys students, parents and teachers to collect actionable data.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2018

Today, the number of online courses, online certificate, and degree programs, and the scores of eager students, has grown exponentially in all disciplines — design included. Suddenly, instead of moving to a costly design capital like New York or London, students can learn the basics from the comfort of their own homes.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This year, the most innovative companies in the education sector are tackling a dizzying array of challenges facing students and schools alikenot to mention parents. As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 4, 2024

DonorsChoose in New York City got off to an early start through a promo code sent to previous donors on Monday. DonorsChoose, which links “wish lists” for classroom and student supplies submitted by public school teachers, set a $5 million goal for the day. Due in part to a 50% match, the organization generated $5.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Given the skillset of many college students, social media and web developer work are popular on the Pangea platform. And because it is based in Providence, a cheaper market than New York or San Francisco, its new capital will give it more time to grow. All told, Pangea has raised around $3 million. The model is scaling.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2021

The accounts aren’t viewable on WeChat, but users on Weibo (a Chinese analogue to Twitter) have collected a list of the several of the impacted groups, including ones run by students at Tsinghua University and Fudan University, Insider writes.

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VisionLink

MARCH 28, 2014

Members of the NAF WBL Fellows 2014 The National Academy Foundation (NAF) is a leader in preparing high school students for college and career success.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

The Philadelphia Phillies offer behind-the-scenes tours and clinics for their female fans, while the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees offer fantasy camps that are geared to women. At womens colleges such as Smith and Vassar, students organized baseball teams as early as 1866. It wasnt always this way.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2025

Other mega gifts to higher education included $200 million from an anonymous donor to Catawba College, $150 million from Byron Trott toward recruiting rural students, and a bequest of at least $150 million from Glenn and Barbara Britt to Dartmouth College. In the area of health and medical research, City of Hope received $150 million from A.

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The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

Roth tells The New York Times that she’ll use the money to pay off her student loans and to donate to charity. And as is the case with many NFT sales, the Roths also retain the copyright to the image and will make 10 percent off any future sales of the NFT.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

It’s been a few weeks now; I’ve used it to share photos from a work trip to Portland, Maine, and to explore my neighborhood in New York. I was so energized by the tool—both its current functionality and its potential for future application—that I downloaded the mobile (Android) version and started testing it on the spot.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2005

A great quote from a five minute video on accessible e-text books produced by college students in New York. It really delivers the message of how access to books changes the lives of students with disabilities. "For the first time I can read what I want, when I want, where I want, by myself."

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Her students consistently score at the top of over 120 schools in the Arusha district of Tanzania. At 19, New Jersey native Maggie Doyne used her life savings from babysitting to start Kopila Valley children’s home in Nepal, which has grown to a home for over 40 children, and a school serving over 200 students.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

But the experience you provide should help students and young professionals to advance their careers, not leave a bad taste in their mouths. Apart from working long hours and not getting credit for their time, Ballinger and Leib weren’t even provided a living wage, which is particularly damaging since the internships were in New York City.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Popular saving and investing app Acorns has acquired Pillar, an AI-powered startup built to help manage student loan debt, in its second acquisition of 2021. New York-based Pillar helps consumers optimize their debt payments by focusing first on student loans. trillion in student loans.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Carnegie Corporation of New York. Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 11, 2021

It even has a bracket system to track the progress of the competition, as well as a ranking system — appropriately made with an Excel spreadsheet — with Diarmuid Early of New York at the top of the global leaderboard, followed by Anup Agarwal of India, and Andrew Ngai of England.

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VisionLink

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Participating states will develop work plans for the development and implementation of corequisite instructional models, develop multiple gateway math pathways for students aligned to programs of study, and develop an intake process for guiding students into appropriate gateway courses either with or without additional corequisite academic support.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

. “But the truth is, when you run Techstars New York, if you don’t have five companies from New York, there’s a feeling that you’re letting the ecosystem down a little bit.” ” Now that the program is almost entirely virtual, Fielding said she felt free to “open up the geos.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It wasn’t the lingering exhaustion that made Christine Huang, a New York public school teacher, leave the profession. Instead, Huang left teaching after seven years because of how New York City handled the coronavirus pandemic in schools. Or the low pay. Honestly, I have no confidence in the city,” she says.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Litnerd , a company out of New York City, wants to try something new. help keep students engaged. Students read the book between sessions; once a week, an actor is streamed to the class to re-enact scenes, bring everything together and move the story along. Sometimes this actor’s segment is pre-recorded.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The affected states include Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, as well as parts of North Carolina and Ohio. Customers will be notified as they approach the 1.2TB threshold.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Scott Galloway, the New York University professor, author, and tech entrepreneur, is taking the wraps off a $30 million Series A round for his newest company, Section4 , a platform for business “upskilling” that has now raised $37 million altogether. Excerpts from that chat follow, edited lightly for length.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Most of the books I work with are books requested by students and titles from the New York Times (NYT) bestsellers list. Then we headed off to an independent bookseller who lets Bookshare buy new books at a discount and order others. students thanks to support from the U.S. Bookshare members in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

The good news is that for any Microsoft Press book that a U.S. student with a qualified print disability needs, we have a wonderful domestic copyright exemption. We can and will scan it and get it to that student in under a month. We stopped making access contingent on the need to complete a no-revenue contract.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

ExamSoft’s software records students while they complete remote exams and monitors for signs of academic dishonesty. Back in September, multiple non-white exam-takers told the New York Times that the software couldn’t identify them due to “poor lighting” — a problem that Teninbaum, who has light skin, wasn’t able to replicate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Estimates put the number of Chinese people living abroad (counting students and first-generation immigrants, and counting those living outside of the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) at around 50 million , with most of them concentrated in other Asian countries, so that is a specific target for the startup. The reasons?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The FCC still has to set up a program to approve applicants for the program and to bring internet service providers on board, The New York Times reported. The lack of consistent internet service across the US has been in the spotlight during the pandemic, as students in low-income areas struggled to participate in virtual classes.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 3, 2024

At DonorsChoose in New York City, a platform through which public schoolteachers submit “wish lists” for classroom and student supplies, GivingTuesday had an early start through a promo code sent to previous donors on Monday. The platform’s donors raised $1.2

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

This is the group charged with advising the Department of Education on the adoption of the new digital standard for electronic textbooks for students with disabilities. This will have a huge impact on students with disabilities around the U.S. Early December, I'm starting to plan a trip to New York.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 9, 2008

These were quite familiar to folks like Frank Simpson of the Lavelle School in New York and Miki Jordan of the Junior Blind of America in Los Angeles. We enjoyed getting a chance to chat with a couple of the students who were impressively fluent. We visited the English language classroom. It was gorgeous until the last day.

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