The Educational Testing Service will administer the Test of English as a Foreign Language to Cuban students for the first time, which could signal the beginning of a larger educational exchange between the countries.
Mergers and acquisition opportunities in K-12 will focus on companies that provide adaptive learning and online assessments, according to Berkery Noyes.
The spending surge is being driven by demand for mobile personal computers, which account for 63 percent of total educational spending on hardware.
ETS has won a series of lucrative pieces of Texas state testing work, worth $280 million, while rival Pearson won contracts with much less value.
For the second time in two months, Minnesota has stopped testing because of distributed denial-of-service attacks, and Pearson’s system was disrupted.
California state board officials have approved a $240 million assessment contract for ETS, despite complaints from a rival vendor.
Results of a new, nationwide survey show that nearly 60 percent of high schoolers are using their own mobile devices in school.
Recent problems in Nevada’s administration of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium common-core tests were attributed to late delivery of open-source code.
The state has given notice to a vendor and the Smarter Balanced testing consortium that they are in “breach of contract” after a series of testing glitches.
Students in several counties on Monday ran into problems trying to log in to the state’s online testing system, leading to testing delays.