West Virginia will become the 12th state to implement a statewide “IT Academy” certification program through Microsoft.
The U.S. ranked near the bottom in an exhaustive international comparison of educational innovation, but received high grades for use of assessments and parent engagement.
A pair of ed-tech accelerators each choose 10 companies from a pool of more than 700 startup applicants.
Regent Education, a provider of financial aid and enrollment management for colleges, received $9 million in funding to accelerate its growth initiative.
The U.S. Education Department’s research agency will help 15 new education entrepreneurs conduct research and development for interventions in science, language arts and other areas.
The American Institutes for Research has reached out to PARCC to try to resolve a dispute over a lucrative, and controversial, common-core testing contract awarded to Pearson.
StudyBlue, a startup that develops on-the-go study apps, received $1.7 million from investors, bringing its total venture capital investment to over $17 million.
The technology giant has revamped its iTunes U platform to allow teachers build lessons directly through an iPad app, rather than just through Web browsers.
College faculty at Marian University have created a method for judging education apps by research standards.
With more than 350 prize-based challenges at the federal government level, public schools can innovate through challenges with prizes, too.