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Abre Named EdTech Startup of the Year in 2019 EdTech Breakthrough Awards
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8:00 AM ET
Leading education management platform provider Abre.io today announced that EdTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies and solutions in the global educational technology market, has selected the company as the winner of its "EdTech Startup of the Year" award in the inaugural EdTech Breakthrough Awards program.
Abre provides an innovative all-in-one Education Management Platform with a mission to change how education software is perceived, created, purchased and deployed, to help those in education better do what they do and what they want to do.
Abre gives administrators, teachers, students, parents and community members access to the information and tools needed to manage students, staff, effectively deliver instruction and engage with school operations. In the first 14 months of operations, Abre has been used by over 38 school systems and 240+ schools.
"Students, teachers, district administrators, school leaders, and parents all benefit from Abre's suite of apps and other software tools," said Damon Ragusa, Abre.io CEO. "The Abre Hub has revolutionized education by making all of a classroom's software tools more centralized. This helps school districts save time and money that they can dedicate to directly helping their students. We look forward to continued partnerships with hundreds of schools around the country, bringi ng them 21st-century software solutions that will provide greater efficiency for teachers and administrators, and a better learning experience for students."
"The educational technology space is fiercely competitive and Abre 'breaks through' in our 2019 EdTech Breakthrough Awards program with a combination of compelling technology and promising momentum in progressing in the education management space," said James Johnson, managing director, EdTech Breakthrough. "What sets this company apart from the competition is the Abre Hub and their suite of connected applications. Abre represents a significant step towards streamlining the vast amount of educational technology software used in the classroom. By making software easier to manage, distribute, and use, this frees up time for administrators and teachers to focus on their students."
The mission of the EdTech Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of educational technology categories, including Student Engagement, School Administration, Adaptive Learning, STEM Education, e-Learning, Career Preparation and many more. This year's program attracted more than 1,500 nominations from over 12 different countries throughout the world.
Abre's suite of apps, which are centrally located on the Abre Hub, fall into three categories: Learning Management, School or Classroom Management, and Data & amp; Analytics. The apps are designed with a consistent, easy-to-learn user interface. Harnessing the power of data analytics, Abre delivers important insights to support school decision making and drive individual student achievement. The cost structure and integration strategy championed by Abre enables schools to replace old software, freeing up funds that can be reinvested in ways that more directly impact students.
About Abre
Abre.io provides an education management platform that delivers a growing number of connected apps designed for schools who use the web to manage information and to deliver instruc tional content. Abre apps are built to simplify managing school and delivering instruction. School districts benefit from Abre by reducing professional development time for teachers, freeing up data to support improving performance and saving money. Abre.io manages a community edition based on an open source project of the same name developed at Hamilton City School District (OH). https://abre.io Follow Abre on Twitter @abreplatform.
About Tech Breakthrough
The mission of the Tech Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the creativity, hard work and success of technology companies, platforms , people and products. Tech Breakthrough winners receive well-deserved recognition and third-party validation from an independent organization. Winners are listed on their respective Tech Breakthrough Awards website and promoted heavily among the Tech Breakthrough communities. Winners have the opportunity to tout their awards at tradeshows and events, through news releases to key media and journalists, on their own websites, social media and elsewhere.
Abre Media contact: Jenna Shields 312/636-5355 jshields@abre.io
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Penske Truck Leasing Will be Present at National Private Truck Council (NPTC) Expo
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Penske Truck Leasing in 2019 will serve as a Platinum Sponsor and exhibitor at the National Private Truck Council (NPTC) Annual Education Management Conference and Exhibition from April 14-16 in Cincinnati.
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The company will also host the First Timers' Orientation Breakfast and Sunday Exhibit Hall Reception.
Pen ske Truck Leasing will exhibit in booth 400 and display its full range of capabilities for private truck fleets including: full-service leasing, commercial truck rentals, connected fleet technology solutions, preventive maintenance, remote diagnostics, mobile apps and more.
Celebrating its 50th year in business, Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P., headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania, is a partnership of Penske Corporation, Penske Automotive Group and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. A leading global transportation services provider, Penske operates more than 308,000 vehicles and serves customers from more than 1,100 locations in North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Product lines include full-service truck leasing, contract maintenance, commercial and consumer truck rentals, used truck sales, transportation and warehousing management and supply chain management solutions. Visit https://www.gopenske.com/ to learn more.
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Alpha Publishing Group (UK) Signs Protocol With Egypt for Education Management Organisation
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It has been announced that Alpha Publishing (UK) group has signed a protocol with the Egypt for Education Management Organisation, who have their GCC headquarters in Dubai, to train teachers with the Nile Egyptian Schools in accordance with international standards.
As the official body responsible for the management and operation of the Nile Egyptian Schools project, which is 100 percent funded by the Government to the value of 2 billion Egyptian pounds, the Egypt for Education Management Organisation is charged with the task of ensuring the project's teachers achieve the highest levels of professional performance.
The Organisation's vision is that, when fully trained, the Nile Egyptian Schools' teachers will serve as role models at local and regional level. Now, in a significant move towards achieving that goal, the Management Organisation has signed a protocol with the UK educational group, Alpha Publishing.
The protocol, signed on Thursday, April 4 in Cairo, by Dr. Hassan Ismail Fares, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Egypt for Education Management Organisation and Mr. Eyad Darawsheh, Managing Director of Alpha Publishing, engages Alpha Publishing with the ambitious tasks of providing face-to-face teacher training, e-learning expertise as well as developing and providing educational curricula in a number of subject areas including English, Mathematics and Science.
The training drive comes as part of the Egyptian State's 2030 vision and requires Alpha Publishing, in partnership with the Egypt for Education Management Organisation, to develop and implement a face-to-face teacher training program along with the provision of high-quality curriculum packages for English Language, Mathematics, Science, French Language, Arabic Language and Computer Sciences.
The signing of the protocol by Dr. Fares and Mr. Darawsheh is part of the President's plan to expand the Nile Egyptian Schools model whose centers are located in Sadat City, New Aswan City, New Luxor, New Damietta City, S horouq City, Sheikh Zayed City, and New Cairo (Al-Andalus and Jasmine).
The Nile Egyptian Schools offer a breakthrough educational curriculum designed to ensure Egyptian students and teachers meet the latest local and international accreditation requirements.
"We are anticipating educational institutions which provide a new, distinguished and high-quality educational model at the national and regional level," explained Dr. Hassan Fares to an audience at the Ministry of Education in Cairo.
"We want a model which, at its core, is based on participation by and engagement with, parents and the community. This is the best way to manage and achieve our objectives of giving every student a globally recognized certificate equivalent to the international certificate.
"Our aim is to develop students who are knowledgeable, skilled and professionally qualified, ready to engage directly with the labor market or academic environment either locally or internationally.
"We want them to be developed in an education system distinguished by i ts high international standards and Egyptian identity. We want to develop our educational and administrative environment so that they keep abreast of scientific and technological developments, and so that our curricula continually develop in accordance with the latest global trends in teaching and learning as well as community and environmental services. It is our intention that these developments will support our schools' competitive position and achieve a high level of satisfaction throughout society," he concluded.
Sherine Hamdy, Head of Sector of the Office of the Minister of Education, confirmed that the Nile Egyptian Schools' curriculum is based on the implementation of this new educational model. She emphasized the need for experienced and highly-trained teaching staff, supported by a soc iety, which is equally aware of the challenges of the labor market.
There was also a desire and need to develop responsible and effective citizens and deepen our students' sense of Egyptian identity and loyalty to the country, she said.
Dr Amani Al-Far, Executive Manager of the Organisation, said the Nile Egyptian Schools aim to serve those middle-class parents who cannot enroll their children in schools with high annual expenses.
She underlined the fact that these schools also qualify students for admission to top-ranking international universities.
According to Eyad Darawsheh, Managing Director of Alpha Publishing, today's signing of the protocol is confirmation of his company's commitment to supporting and training teachers in Egypt.
"We are very grateful to the Ministry of Education & Technical Education, Egypt and to the Egypt for Education Management Organisation for the opportunity to be here," said Mr. Darawsheh.
"Our company's strategy is rooted in providing educational resources which will best help teachers to reach international standards. We believe today's partnering with the Egypt for Education Management Organisation falls within the Ministry of Education's 2030 vision and plan to empower teachers to keep pace with the digital transformation in education."
"The forward-looking training program to be established will deliver advanced teacher training techniques. In turn, we hope that the results of this training program will contribute to the development and education of our future generations and communities by providing the labor market with a generation of knowledgeable, skilled and innovative students an d leaders who can create new industries and jobs in Egypt and the region," said Mr. Darawsheh.
His words were echoed by Kevin MacDermot, head of ELT (English Language Teaching) with Alpha. "Technology is evolving and education, in terms of both students and teachers, must evolve with it. What we want to do is assist teachers to enable their students in this regard," said Mr. MacDermot.
"Today's students need to learn how to relate to the fast-shifting digital world around them, both educationally and socially. At the same, the role of the teacher must change from the traditional one to one where the teacher must also be a mentor and a guide, helping their students assess and interpret the information now available to them via the digital world.
"Modern technology is presenting our students and our children with both opportunities and challenges. What Alpha wants to do in this project is assist teachers in preparing to help their students meet those challenges and seize those opportunities," said Mr. MacDermot.
Alpha's head of US Schools content, Aaron Ashworth, said it was crucially important to equip teachers so they could prepare students for new realities. "The walls of the traditional classroom disappear wh en we integrate technology into education," said Mr. Ashworth.
"Students have different learning styles and language proficiency -- we will train educators to reach students at their level through differentiated instruction and teaching 21st Century Skills so they can achieve international standards in Math, Science and English Language Arts.
"It's important to teach our students to safely navigate the Internet but also to recognize and analyze the information they find so that, crucially, they can differentiate between the relevant and irrelevant. In this way, we're confident they can properly interpret the world around them and become effective, global, Egyptian citizens," said Mr. Ashworth.
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About Alpha Publishing
Alpha Publishing is a publishing and curriculum development company operating across English Learning Arts, English Language Teaching, Mathematics and Science. It offers workshops and specialized training courses for teachers based on a variety of international and national curricula including American, Bri tish and International Baccalaureate, with the aim of empowering teachers and raising their professional competence.
Alpha Publishing has its own sales and distribution network represented by Smart Education (www.smarteducation.ae).
For further information, please contact -Bianca.yanson@smarteducation.ae, Shaymaa.aly@smarteducation.ae, Danielle.nasser@alphapublishing.com or call +971 4 391 8658
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I should have checked twitter sooner, good DD posted over there...
Appeals court rules for Education Management on debt-cutting plan
By Tom Hals | WILMINGTON, DEL Tue Jan 17, 2017 | 12:05pm EST
Education Management Corp scored a victory in its fight against an investor opposed to its $1.5 billion debt-cutting plan on Tuesday, when a U.S. appeals court overturned a decision in a closely watched case involving creditors' rights.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a lower court erred in its ruling that a Depression-era law, the Trust Indenture Act, barred Education Management's plan to restructure its debt.
The appeals court also said the holdout creditor opposing the debt-cutting plan, Marblegate Asset Management LLC, could pursue its right to repayment by suing Education Management. However, the court said Marblegate could not invoke the Trust Indenture Act to retain an "absolute and unconditional" right to payment.
The dispute stems from Education Management's business of providing post-secondary education at Argosy University and the Art Institutes campuses, which ran into severe financial problems. The company needed to cut its debt without filing for bankruptcy, which would have caused it to lose access to federal student loan programs.
Creditors holding 98 percent of the liabilities agreed to swap their loans and bonds for new debt and equity in the company, according to the court ruling. Lenders would get about 55 percent of the $1.3 billion they were owed, and investors holding $217 million in notes would get a 33 percent recovery.
To carry out the deal over Marblegate's opposition, the company's lenders foreclosed on Education Management's assets. They then sold them to an Education Management subsidiary and divided ownership of the unit.
Marblegate still had the legal right collect, but those claims were brought against a corporate parent without assets.
Marblegate sued to force Education Management to pay in full, invoking the Trust Indenture Act.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Failla in Manhattan ruled in 2015 that the company violated that law by undermining Marblegate's practical ability to collect on its debt.
Education Management appealed, saying the law only guaranteed a legal right to a payment, not the ability to collect.
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