The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Stacey Childress will become the CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund.
The American Institutes for Research, an organization that provides testing services, has filed a lawsuit in New Mexico state court to try to halt the awarding of a major contract to a rival, Pearson.
The global education company Pearson has won a contract from the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers to develop test items, deliver tests, report results, and analyze scores.
The unemployment rate for young workers, defined as those under the age of 25, is more than double that of the overall population, an Economic Policy Institute analysis shows.
The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog has called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to remove Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt from the state’s Smart Schools Commission.
A panel that included K-12 teachers gave attendees at a major education business a blunt view of their frustrations and worries about classroom technologies.
Reed Hastings, a Netflix co-founder, charter school backer, and former California state board of education president, says local school board politics stifle innovation.
Only about half of the nation’s teachers regard the digital tools their students use frequently as effective, according to a new nationwide survey of educators.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tells attendees at the ASU/GSV summit that entrepreneurship “is not a threat to public education.”
Appearing at a major ed. business event on the day his organization announced plans to shut down, inBloom’s CEO acknowledged the difficulty of conveying its mission to the public.