The new law allows states or districts to use the SAT or ACT for high school accountability, a move that signals a shift in how achievement is measured and what in what schools value.
The Student Online Personal Information Protection Act seeks to block third-party contractors from selling student data for advertising, and restricts vendors from creating profiles of students for non-educational reasons.
Changes in federal policy, and shifting K-12 demands for engaging, easy-to-use ed-tech products are likely to shape the K-12 marketplace in 2016.
Fast-Growing Private Education Companies Make Inc. 5000 List
Schoolwires Appears on the List for 9 Years
The 39 fastest-growing private education companies that touch the prekindergarten to 12th grade world generated about $617 million in combined annual revenues.
Faced with increasing competition from charter and private schools, the Austin, Texas, school system is launching a $350,000 marketing campaign to try to win over families.
A court decision that allowed a huge common-core testing contract to go forward was one of the biggest stories that shaped the state and local K-12 market in 2015.
Uneven regulation allows charter-managed organizations to purchase public school properties in deals with questionable ethical implications, according to a report from the National Education Policy Center.
Digital Promise and Johns Hopkins have arranged a series of questions they say K-12 officials should ask when they’re judging the quality of studies of ed-tech products.
A testing vendor, Data Recognition Corporation, wins a $34 million award for statewide testing in South Carolina, after fighting the initial award to a rival.
At the Education Business Forum, executives learned how the booming use of technology in schools around the world could open doors and stir competition.