A top official for Edgenuity testified that his company paid Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard $7,500 a month as a consultant to help it make connections in other states.
Some MOOC providers are starting to offer academic credits for completion of their courses—for a fee.
EngageNY, the online resource created by the state of New York, has been downloaded an estimate 45 milion times, and it now draws more than 18,000 daily users.
Cutting the nation’s suspension rate by even a small amount could yield a multi-billion-dollar economic impact by producing savings in public programs and higher wages for affected students, a new analysis finds.
KickUp, a Philadelphia company focused on professional learning, raises $1.54 Million in a seed round; and the educational network EduRev, based in India, lures Pre- Series A money.
The Vector Assessment of Readiness for College, backed by some conservatives, is being marketed as “the antidote for Common Core-aligned college entrance exams.”
The number of global ed-tech exits in 2016 is well off last year’s pace, in another sign that the scale of dealmaking has cooled from peaks of a couple years ago, according to CB Insights.
The major philanthropy misread “the level of resources and support required for our public education systems to be well-equipped to implement the standards,” wrote Sue Desmond-Hellman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Smartivity, a company based in India that develops arts, crafts, and science activity kits, raises $1 million, and Listen Current and Tabtor also raked in investment dollars.
The state recently terminated a five-year assessment contract with Measurement Inc. that could have been worth $108 million.