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9/22/2016

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  • Online Data Tool Aims Chicago High Schoolers toward College

    A new initiative is intended to close the gap between the number of students in Chicago Public Schools who aspire to earn a college degree (75 percent) and those who are projected to do so within 10 years of starting high school (18 percent). The To&Through Project is a joint effort of the Urban Education Institute and Network for College Success, both organizations based at the University of Chicago.

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  • Udacity Unveils Nanodegree Program for Self-Driving Car Engineers

    At TechCrunch's Disrupt SF event last week, Udacity Founder and President Sebastian Thrun debuted a Nanodegree program for building autonomous vehicles, and discussed how the program is part of the company's vision to democratize higher education.

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  • DubLabs Adds Personalized Push Notifications

    Colleges and universities now have a new tool for sending personal messages directly to individual students' mobile devices.

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