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...Those pieces Sevier expects to follow suit in London include a 1970 Cy Twombly blackboard painting, with “a really conservative and attractive” estimate of $10mn-$15mn, and Freud’s 1969-70 “Night Interior...
...Why didn’t she heed the family rules written on their kitchen blackboard, the last of which is — clank! — “Always tell the truth”?...
...The kind host might have left a recipe for lemonade on a blackboard or the addresses of a couple of cafés that look exactly like the cafés in the city you just left and where the baristas have the same beards...
...“And the kids who had the lower IQ were never given responsibilities like carrying the flag in assembly or even cleaning the blackboards.”...
...For reasons opaque to me, even pre-BlackBerry, Americans preferred the homegrown PalmPilot, which was about as useful for writing a document as a miniature blackboard....
...Her school offers easy access to course material through a mobile learning app called Blackboard, while ParticiPoll allows real-time online polling in class discussions....
...In 2011, rival private equity group Providence Equity Partners purchased educational software provider Blackboard for $1.6bn....
...“Education is a teacher, a blackboard, a piece of chalk and the discourse that goes on in the classroom,” says Thomas Dee, a Stanford professor of education....
...Mr Molloy wrote “No Pain, No Gain” on a blackboard in the locker room: the mantra was adopted by Mr Roberts in his professional life....
...In 2011, Providence purchased educational software provider Blackboard for $1.6bn....
Higher education online courses are growing in popularity but their business model is uncertain
...Pupils at a school on the green slopes of Mount Kenya no longer have eyes for the blackboard. Instead they are transfixed by a $500 tablet....
...Thus, in “Style, Inc”, Moretti takes 7,000 British novels published between 1740 and 1850 and feeds them into a computer....
...Providence’s past investments include Blackboard, Digiturk, Kabel Deutschland, ProSiebenSat.1, Univision, Warner Music and Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network....
...groups took advantage of buoyant credit markets, signing up a run of buy-outs soon to be marketed to investors, including deals for BJ’s Wholesale, the warehouse retailer, and digital education company Blackboard...
...Some banks have been taking losses as they slowly sell down financing commitments on deals struck before the market turmoil, with deals such as Providence Equity Partners’ purchase of Blackboard struggling...
...Blackboard’s loan was offered to investors at 92 cents on the dollar, according to Standard & Poor’s LCD, a debt research company....
...After the leap in its stock, Blackboard had a market value of about $1.7bn....
Back to the blackboard for Nasdaq’s chief
...I try to interest Gormley in the blackboard menu but he lingers on the trisector theorem illustration, summarising rapidly: “If you trisect a triangle’s angles internally, the intersections provide the vertices...
...Many have overcrowded classrooms, blackboards painted onto walls, and dilapidated desks....
...In January, he and his partner sold the company to Blackboard, the education industry software and services group, for $182m....
...Unicef supplies teachers with blackboards and children with notebooks, pencils, erasers, crayons and rulers. “A learning environment provides a feeling of normalcy,” says Mr Keele....
...“There is more calculus on the blackboards of BGI than in most technology companies these days,” he enthuses....
...Blackboard fell 13.9 per cent to $38.08 after the educational software company forecast third-quarter sales below Wall Street expectations....
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