A company that specializes in online personalized learning for 3- to 8-year-olds is the second acquisition in a week for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the education content provider.
The Federal Communications Commission decided to seek public comment on proposed rules that would change the way “net neutrality” is handled, and schools could feel the impact.
At the Software and Information Industry Association’s Education Summit a debate continues over whether and how to restrict companies’ access to student data.
A Democrat and a Republican from the U.S. Senate are floating a bill for discussion that would add protections to student data privacy.
Channel One’s acquisition by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt represents a strategic investment, designed to bring new video and cross-media production capabilities to the longtime publisher.
Attendees at the Software & Information Industry Summit say the market is booming for digital education, but they are well aware that print texts aren’t dead yet.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Stacey Childress will become the CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund.
Pacific Asian countries continue to outrank the United States because they have effective education systems and a “culture of accountablility,” according to the report.
The major online-services provider Google has released its first learning management system, designed to help educators organize and collect assignments, ask questions of students, and perform other tasks.
The American Institutes for Research, an organization that provides testing services, has filed a lawsuit in New Mexico state court to try to halt the awarding of a major contract to a rival, Pearson.