A new video series, “Generation Beta,” highlights efforts across the country to bridge the digital divide for minorities and women and encourage them to enter science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
Federal Communications Commmission Chairman Tom Wheeler tells state education leaders that the agency needs to redirect E-rate money away from “nice-to-have” technology and into “must-have” services.
Some Maine residents and lawmakers are worried about the implications of Pearson’s involvement, through Connections Education LLC, in the state’s first virtual charter school.
Washington state proposes borrowing $700 million against future lottery revenue to fund K-3 classroom expansion and construction of classrooms for all-day kindergarten programs.
Education technology opens more avenues to commercializing education, say authors of a new study that examines how much K-12 students are exposed to marketing in schools.
Renaissance Learning, a K-12 assessment and learning analytics company, has commanded one of the highest prices in the history of ed tech acquisitions.
State efforts to put a digital device in the hands of every student are proving to be more difficult than many ed-tech advocates might have expected.
Leaders from education, business and the tech world talked about how schools are making the transition to using technology at the SXSWedu conference.
When ed-tech companies approach schools, they often do so with disregard for the dynamics of a successful relationship, says Chris Lehmann, Science Leadership Academy principal.
Ed-tech business owners are learning about venture capital opportunities, educators’ expectations, and what the competition is doing at the South by Southwest education conference.