Four ed-tech companies secured big venture capital deals, while one of the largest education publishers might go public this fall.
In the ed-tech industry, “online course” revenues jumped 320 percent, and the advent of blended learning is one of the main reasons, a study finds.
The spending surge is being driven by demand for mobile personal computers, which account for 63 percent of total educational spending on hardware.
ETS has won a series of lucrative pieces of Texas state testing work, worth $280 million, while rival Pearson won contracts with much less value.
Winners of the sixth annual Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition were announced Wednesday, with $140,000 in funding awarded to emerging ed-tech startups.
For the second time in two months, Minnesota has stopped testing because of distributed denial-of-service attacks, and Pearson’s system was disrupted.
After reforming the E-rate program, and increasing its budget, the Federal Communications Commission said all eligible applications from schools and libraries will receive funding.
The website uses research on what educators say about available digital resources to identify gaps and offer suggestions for improvement.
About 1,000 stakeholders in education, and three students who are currently part of it, looked at topics of school re-design, equity, and technology.
Working with school districts, Common Sense Media is developing a rubric to evaluate ed-tech products’ compliance with relevant privacy and security laws and practices.