Parents are skeptical about ed-tech companies being given access to student data, according to a nationwide poll sponsored by the Future of Privacy Forum.
Andrew Marcinek will serve in the U.S. Department of Education’s office of ed tech, working with school and state leaders, educators, and developers.
Eighty-eight percent of districts offered students some form of credit recovery, much of it delivered online.
The AIR will be a primary option for companies vetting their products through the Jefferson Education Accelerator.
Intel will end its sponsorship of the Science Talent Search, one of the world’s most prominent competitions for showcasing student “STEM” talent.
The giant social-media company Facebook is partnering with the Summit charter school network to refine a tech-based “personalized learning” platform.
A national poll, which speaks to how and when teachers use social media, finds that educators shun those online forms for in-class use.
Smarter Balanced will review the validity of test results from three states that experienced disruptions on their tests last year.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have adopted Next Generation Science Standards, which could shape schools’ demand for content for years to come.
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has arranged an independent evaluation of an open-source delivery platform it paid the American Institutes for Research to develop.