The College Board’s administration of the SAT in Asian countries has been hit much harder by security breaches than the organization has previous acknowledged, a Reuters story says.
The company says the partnership will give users of its platform access to dozens of breaking-news stories each week, and hundreds of archived pieces.
A new organization led by a former chief information officer of the New York City schools is trying to help K-12 systems make smarter decisions about buying educational technology.
A Gates foundation survey finds that teachers regard too much of the data that comes to them via technology as slow, delivered in silos, and untrustworthy.
The demand for big, high-stakes summative tests isn’t likely to go away soon, even as classroom assessments become more useful and precise, a panel at SXSWedu suggested.
Schools’ interest in “maker education” is receiving major attention at the SXSWedu conference, though questions about the costs of the hand-on projects remain for teachers
Ed-tech vendors need to show district officials that they have “skin in the game” and are willing to put time and money into making their products work for teachers, one superintendent says.
The South by Southwest education conference, which last year drew more than 6,000 registrants, opens Monday as district officials face major opportunities, and perils, in trying to choose the right ed-tech products.
A project that pairs digital companies with schools produced gains in student learning, but also exposed flaws in how some of those products were implemented.
The major nationwide operator of online charter schools has opened its first virtual school focused on career-and-technical education, with plans for more to come.