Federal officials have published model “terms of service” to help guide districts on what privacy policies to demand from vendors.
Fedora, LocoMotive Labs, and EdTrips headlined a busy week of K-12 venture capital.
School and library officials applauded the FCC’s action, because they believe it prevents their institutions from being relegated to a “slow lane” of Internet service.
Futuresource Consulting projects that half of students and teachers in the U.S. will have access to their own personal computer in school by 2015-16.
Federal Communications Commissioners Ajit Pai and Mike O’Rielly Monday asked the FCC chairman to release his 332-page “net neutrality” plan and postpone Thursday’s scheduled vote.
NoRedInk, a website that uses student interests to create grammar and writing exercises, raised $6 million in a Series A round.
Listen Current, a curator of public radio stories geared towards science, social studies, and English/language arts classrooms, raised $950,000 in seed funding.
The acquisition represents the value that Renaissance, one of the largest assessment and learning analytics companies in the K-12 market, places on a relative newcomer.
The media conglomerate and CIG Education Group are combining to create NYT EDUcation, an initiative for pre-college and college students and professional learners.
California, Texas and Florida are among the states that are ceding more authority to districts in choosing their own instructional materials, the Association of American Publishers reports.