Google Chromebooks remain a dominant player in the U.S. school market, though their growth has slipped a bit recently, according to a new report by Futuresource Consulting.
The study showed that half of the time schools access ed-tech tools is for operational purposes (such as using online gradebooks) and for research and data gathering.
Private schools in the city see a growing need for U.S. standards-based curricula, said speakers at an event at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates.
The Finnish co-founder of MinecraftEdu is taking lessons learned from that startup and applying them to dozens of popular online games for education.
Professional development platform BetterLesson and China-based English language learning company ALO7 raised funds.
California and New Jersey lead the country in solar energy usage in schools, and K-12 solar installations across the U.S. have nearly doubled in three years.
Some industry officials say big telecom providers aren’t likely to throttle K-12 districts’ web access, even if they have new power to do so.
In many states, including Florida and Arizona, funding for K-12 still lags well below levels they were at in 2008, before the “Great Recession,” an analysis says.
The sale of Wall Street English, a big provider of English-language learning in China and other countries, will generate $300 million.
After a recent decline in quarterly revenues, Scholastic Education overhauling its executive team and boosting its sales force.