inBloom, the ed-tech nonprofit company that helps schools store and use student data to create more personalized learning, is seeing its popularity decline.
Educators need to learn more lessons from entrepreneurs, argues a University of Maine lecturer on education leadership.
By the end of 2013, total shipments for tablets in the education marketplace are expected to exceed 3.5 million units, with Apple’s iPad dominating.
A Nov. 7 Education Week webinar focuses on the challenges districts face in choosing qualified chief technology officers.
Using open data for education could unlock between $900 billion and $1.2 trillion in economic value every year, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study.
A company with one of the biggest names in education, McGraw-Hill Education, is among the latest to invest in school-focused startups, through a program run out of the University of Pennsylvania. McGraw-Hill is investing in the Education Design Studio, Inc., an incubator and seed fund that is a collaboration between the university’s graduate school of education and venture capitalists and investors.…
The 2013 Inc. 5000 List of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States features 44 businesses serving children from preschool through high school.
Tight school budgets, complying with new health care reform rules, and funding technology are hot topics at the Association of School Business Officials International meeting.
President Obama visited the career-themed “P-Tech” school in New York City today and called for more funding to be directed toward replicating its academic model.
There were 68 education-focused mergers and acquisitions in the third quarter of 2013, with several of the deals focused on child care.