However, the variable invariably overlooked by the imaginative and passionate ed-tech crowd is human nature itself.
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Does that op-ed -- do the comments that Romney made in any way cloud or set a certain backdrop to this lunch?
Initiatives like the ED-X partnership between Harvard and MIT promise to give non-traditional students elements of a world-class education online, and for free.
The ED-7270 (dubbed U-ROBO), touts a sophisticated similarity to the pioneering R2-D2, and can complete a myriad of in-home chores by using the included software to program its pathways, actions, and movements.
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The joke doing the rounds in Portcullis House today is that this shouldn't be thought of as a vote on boundaries at all, but as a paving bill for an Ed-Vince partnership to take over from Nick 'n Dave.
It also happens to be the home of Lynda.com, an ed-tech startup and one of the bigger success stories in all of California this year (disclosure: I have no relationship with the company, by my sister firm does).
We need to continue to take the measures necessary -- like the ones I was just describing to Ed -- that would have a direct, immediate impact on economic growth and job creation this year, right now, because we are still not where we need to be.
In the U.S. a dozen utilities, including Ohio's American Electric Power (nyse: AEP - news - people ) and New York's Consolidated Edison (nyse: ED - news - people ), are running small tests of the technology at anywhere from 3 to 250 homes each.
If Labour were being led by David - not Ed - Miliband the party would probably be using this conference to underline the lessons learned from Labour's past, to indicate how the party could be trusted with the nation's purse strings again and to reinforce that the next Labour government was likely to have to make painful choices of its own.
In fact, we've got Ed Kringer -- Ed, where you are sitting, Ed?
It is a serious proposal, first introduced by the Virginia Speaker in an op-ed co-written with Georgetown University Law Professor Randy Barnett and published in the Wall Street Journal.
Despite receiving a recommendation to uphold the ban on co-ed contact sports (the panel voted 16-3 in favor of the ban with one person abstaining), Archbishop Chaput made up his own mind and ruled to allow for co-ed play.
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While only fifteen percent of all op-ed pieces are by women, for instance, only fifteen percent of all articles submitted to the op-ed page are by women.
Over the past four years K-Tron has also expand- ed into more-muscular equipment that crushes coal.
Right after the 2008 election, Leon wrote an op-ed suggesting President-elect Obama retain me as Secretary of Defense.
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Which may not endear him to the Chancellor, George Osborne, who has been saying that there are questions for former Labour ministers - and especially the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls - to answer about all of this.
And those 10 colleges by themselves represent over 1.4 million students -- fully 5 percent of the higher ed community -- so very significant players at the table today and a huge amount of energy and enthusiasm in the room.
And we saw that through the reaction to the Gang of Six, through a lot of outside voices in op-ed pages and on -- commenting on television and on radio.
Last week The New York Times featured an op-ed written by 24-year-old Matthew Klein that attempted to compare youth unemployment in the U.S. with that powering the revolutions in the Middle East.
Warren Buffett, the Berkshire Hathaway billionare, has generated a wide-ranging discussion with his New York Times op-ed advocating that higher-income individuals, albeit people who make less than him, should pay more taxes.
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Benedict has until now been my little secret - I'm always Ben to my family, friends and anyone who asks, Benedict only to the electoral register and the DVLA. The sounds "-ed" and "-ict" generally lie unused, like the empty wings of a decrepit stately home.
Everyone - from Sir Mervyn King, to George Osborne, to Ed Miliband - says we need to come out of this crisis with a different kind of economy, one that is more balanced, less vulnerable to crises.
ARPA-ED, like ARPA-E, however, does not have a clear-cut connection between supply and demand.
Ed note: This op-ed by First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden was first published on Fortune.com.
At the higher-ed level, these for-profits sustain themselves through student loan money.
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In a December 2011 op-ed in the Midland Reporter-Telegram, Mr. Seliger assailed Mr. Sullivan for "fraudulent misrepresentation of voting records" and suggested that such critical speech isn't covered by the First Amendment.
Many business schools expect open-enrollment courses--ready-made exec-ed classes offered throughout the year--to be hurt by the downturn.
Labour leader Ed Miliband - whose party came fourth in the by-election - said it was a "disastrous night" for the Conservatives and David Cameron.
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