A federal court ruling this week keeps the repeal of net neutrality in place, but paves the way for states to write their own regulations.
A Dominant Company in K-12 Robotics Eyes a Changing Market
LEGO Education Tries to Anticipate Future Work Trends When Designing Products, a Top Official Says

Silver McDonald, the general manager of LEGO Education North America, says students need products that will teach them about collaboration, innovation, and coding to develop skills for careers of the future.
Education Companies Feel the Sting of Trade War With China
Tariffs on Everything from Laptops and Interactive Whiteboards to Books Worry K-12 Vendors

New or looming tariffs on goods imported from China have education companies scrambling to get products across U.S. borders and wondering whether to pass new costs on to schools and districts.
The $1.3 billion international robotics education market is set to grow to $3.1 billion by 2025, predicts market research firm HolonIQ.
A new report looks at how the Every Student Succeeds Act’s mandate for evidence in school-turnaround strategies are playing out in five school districts.
See How States Are Evaluating Companies for ESSA School Turnaround Initiatives
Vendors Need to Establish Evidence of Effectiveness or Risk Losing Out on State or Federal School Improvement Funds

Nearly four years after a federal education law emphasized the use of evidence-based interventions to improve student outcomes, the requirements are changing the K-12 landscape for education companies.
Tech Leader’s Wish List: Subject-Agnostic Applications, Student-Creation Elements, and Teacher Input
'Our Message Is That We Are Using Technology to Amplify Student Learning'
Alicia Duell, the technology director for a K-8 district in Illinois, says usage data plays a key role in her decisions about what ed-tech tools to keep and scrap.
Vote for our panels on social-emotional learning, the ed-tech market, artificial intelligence, global education opportunities and the K-12 marketplace to appear on the agenda at SXSWedu.
The Best K-12 Vendors ‘Break Their Own Company Rules’ to Help Districts
A New York District's Chief Tech Officer Needs Ed-Tech Providers Who Anticipate the Concerns of His District, and of Its Parents
Gerald Crisci, the chief tech and innovation director for the Scarsdale, N.Y., school district, needs companies to help him on tangled issues that extend from data privacy to pricing.
The Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook a historic $5 billion over data privacy violations and is expected to reach a multi-million dollar settlement with Google for improperly collecting data from children streaming YouTube videos.