Intel will end its sponsorship of the Science Talent Search, one of the world’s most prominent competitions for showcasing student “STEM” talent.
The rising popularity of Chromebooks is driving down the prices that schools pay for devices, with the $200 to $299 category commanding the biggest segment.
The company’s filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission identifies the opportunities and risks in buying its stock when the public offering is made later this year.
The giant social-media company Facebook is partnering with the Summit charter school network to refine a tech-based “personalized learning” platform.
In the first two weeks of school, the biggest facilities cost will be for air conditioning repairs, which will require $170 million, a study says.
A national poll, which speaks to how and when teachers use social media, finds that educators shun those online forms for in-class use.
Smarter Balanced will review the validity of test results from three states that experienced disruptions on their tests last year.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have adopted Next Generation Science Standards, which could shape schools’ demand for content for years to come.
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has arranged an independent evaluation of an open-source delivery platform it paid the American Institutes for Research to develop.
The National Federation of the Blind questions whether e-books that educators will purchase through Amazon’s storefront are likely to be fully useful to its community.