Lumosity had been accused by the Federal Trade Commission of claiming without sufficient evidence that its products improved performance on everyday tasks, including school performance.
Why Tests of Ed-Tech Products Don’t Mesh With K-12 Budget Cycles
Many Trials of Digital Learning Products Occur Too Late to Get in District Spending Plans
Many pilots of ed-tech products occur too late for K-12 systems to make district-wide purchases of those products the next academic year. How can companies overcome that timing disconnect?
The new Every Student Succeeds Act allows states and districts to try “pay for success” projects that offer financial rewards to investors in public education, if they produce results.
Open educational resources — viewed by many as challenger to commercial resources — are encouraged through the recently passed, sweeping ESSA federal statute.
Changes in federal policy, and shifting K-12 demands for engaging, easy-to-use ed-tech products are likely to shape the K-12 marketplace in 2016.
A court decision that allowed a huge common-core testing contract to go forward was one of the biggest stories that shaped the state and local K-12 market in 2015.
Digital Promise and Johns Hopkins have arranged a series of questions they say K-12 officials should ask when they’re judging the quality of studies of ed-tech products.
Districts are putting big chunks of money into creating centralized electronic management systems for “exceptional students,” including special-needs populations.
A testing vendor, Data Recognition Corporation, wins a $34 million award for statewide testing in South Carolina, after fighting the initial award to a rival.
Districts and states have made purchases, or are considering them, to help them navigate and analyze massive tides of student information, such as the Los Angeles Unified school system’s hiring of Schoology to implement a learning management system.