Colorado officials want to buy a software system to track students outside traditional school settings; the Philadelphia district focuses on academic interventions.
Sony Global Education said it has developed a form of “blockchain” technology for schools, as education officials slowly begin to explore the concept’s applicability to schools.
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Seventy percent of district leaders have no information on students’ Internet access away from school, says the Consortium for School Networking, which represents K-12 chief tech officers.
The Emerson Collective, a venture fund led by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, joined Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, in investing in Ellevation.
Commercial vendors and nonprofits can apply for money to develop digital ed-tech products to build students’ conceptual math ability.
An attorney who has served as president of New Visions for Public Schools will lead the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s K-12 strategy, starting on June 1.
A think tank has created a searchable online hub with information on school districts’ use of blended learning and the vendors they choose for that ed-tech work.
California officials are looking to buy a new assessment system for teacher credentialing, initially budgeted for at least $3 million.
Global funding for educational technology surged in 2015, and a big chunk of that activity was concentrated in China, which accounted for 37 percent of deals.