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MAY — JUNE 2021 – NEWSLETTER #43 | Breaking news at IBL News | Noticias en Español
Education
• Dramatic Increase in the Number of Children Falling Basic Reading Skills
• Students Prefer Some Courses Be Fully Online Post-Pandemic
• President Biden Proposes Two Years of Free Community College
• The College Board Will Offer Its CLEP Exam at Home with Remote Proctoring
Universities
• Universities Say to Donors: We Are Happy to Accept Your Crypto as a Gift
• The University of Maryland Will Invest in Quantum Technology Breakthroughs
• Iona College in New York Acquires Concordia College’s 28-Acre Campus
• Dartmouth College Offers Its Students a Self-Service, AI-Based ChatBot
• MIT Researchers Find that Risk of Contracting COVID Indoors Is the Same at 6ft and 60ft
• Google Introduces a Feature that Allows to Video Call While Working on a Shared Doc
• Google Offers 40,000 Scholarships for Android and Cloud Developers in Africa
• Google Rolls Out New Features for Chrome
Corporate
• Emeritus.org Acquires Summer Camp ID Tech for $200 Million
• Investors at ASU+GSV Select 200 EdTech Startups
• Kahoot Acquires Clever Inc. for $500M to Expand Its Presence in the U.S.
Media
• Economist Education Debuts with a Short Course on ‘The New Global Order’
• Fortune Launches Its Higher Education Rankings with 2U as a Founding Sponsor
2021 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed!
• Education Calendar – MAY — JUNE — JULY-DECEMBER | Conferences in Latin America & Spain
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