A hybrid incubator and seed fund established in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education recently named Rita Ferrandino as its new chief executive officer.
Small business grant programs act as seed funds for ed-tech startups.
Certica Solutions acquired Educuity while college admissions platforms drew funds from the investment community.
Building greater dialogue between private and public sector leaders about ESSA, and forging stronger ties between academic researchers and industry, are priorities for the Education Technology Industry Network’s new leader, Chris Lohse.
The social-media giant and the Summit Charter School network have collaborated to develop software that seeks to tailor lessons to student needs. Over the coming year, 100 schools in 27 states will try the “Basecamp” program.
The California-based charter school network has for years been a darling of digital-education proponents. Since around 2011, Summit has been betting on technology to provide more customized experiences for its students.
In 2014, Tavenner hit it off with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, leading to an unconventional partnership between the charter school organization and the social-networking behemoth around the development of new personalized learning software. And this year will mark the second cohort of Summit’s “Basecamp” program, through which the network hopes to share its model and tools with other schools around the country.
Math teachers are more likely to seek out resources with evidence of alignment to the common core than are language arts teachers, a RAND report finds.
Ed-tech provider PowerSchool has acquired SRB Education Solutions, a Canadian developer of administration and software services. In addition, the Israel-based developer of math and science games, Matific, has raised $45 million.
More than 20 years before smartphones and 1:1 laptop initiatives, Seymour Papert advocated using low-cost personal computers to teach and connect children in high-poverty countries and communities.
Byndr, a mobile learning management platform with offices in India and the United States, has raised $700,000 in seed funding, and the Volaris Group, has acquired the Alpha School System, an Australian provider of school information systems.
Edgenuity today announced its acquisition of Compass Learning, in an effort to broaden its delivery of digital courses for students in grades 6-12 into the lower grades.