Yale University President Richard Levin has been named CEO of ‘MOOC’ provider Coursera, which has recently grown interested in K-12 teacher training.
Two decades after Massachusetts made major changes to its education system, a new report argues that it needs to address school funding and autonomy, to maintain its elite status.
Sixty-eight percent of district technology officials plan to delay or defer maintenance upgrades of technology and contracts, a survey by the Consortium for School Networking shows.
Federal Communications Commmission Chairman Tom Wheeler tells state education leaders that the agency needs to redirect E-rate money away from “nice-to-have” technology and into “must-have” services.
Washington state proposes borrowing $700 million against future lottery revenue to fund K-3 classroom expansion and construction of classrooms for all-day kindergarten programs.
The telecommunications giant is extending the program indefinitely beyond its original June 2014 end date, and expanding eligibility to more families.
Panelists at the South by Southwest education conference discuss the challenges of securing student data, and the political realities of explaining safeguards to parents.
Three-fourths of school districts are counting on the testing consortia to provide them with common-core instructional materials, according to an MDR survey.
Amplify, a subsidiary of media giant News Corp., released a digital curriculum at the SXSWedu conference Monday that combines content with analytics and games.
Two more new technology companies say they’ve agreed to provide $400 million worth of goods and services for schools’ digital efforts, as part of the White House’s “ConnectED” program.