Genext Students, a tutoring platform, has raised $580,000; and Cerego, a company that tries to provide tech-based personalized learning, announced it will partner with Cengage on interoperability standards.
EdWeek Market Brief hosted a Twitter chat this week, delving into the data behind the Tech Titans K-12 special report.
Jonathan Knee, an investment banker and Columbia Business School professor, has studied education business failures and why some companies’ grand ambitions often result in failure.
The question of how education companies can meet the needs of students as they take charge of their own learning was the main focus of an event Wednesday held in the run-up to an education publishers’ conference.
Fifteen companies have won a combined $1.5 million in grants to support work building the academic content and effective use of data for products to help students with special needs.
The administration’s plans call for new funding for charter schools and school choice, but a potentially critical source of ed-tech funding would be zeroed out.
Pearson is preparing to sell off parts of TutorVista, while Gauge Capital has invested in eDynamic Learning, which publishes online career and elective courses for middle and high school.
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The action, which would reverse a two-year-old policy by the agency, has angered a number of school and consumer groups, who worry it would slow the flow of valuable content to students and other internet users.
Between 20 percent and 40 percent of U.S. students are projected to be in charter schools by 2035, a growth in the market that creates new opportunities for K-12 companies, but also big challenges.