Winners of the sixth annual Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition were announced Wednesday, with $140,000 in funding awarded to emerging ed-tech startups.
The website uses research on what educators say about available digital resources to identify gaps and offer suggestions for improvement.
About 1,000 stakeholders in education, and three students who are currently part of it, looked at topics of school re-design, equity, and technology.
Working with school districts, Common Sense Media is developing a rubric to evaluate ed-tech products’ compliance with relevant privacy and security laws and practices.
“Open educational resources,” an alternative to commercial products, get a boost in the U.S. Senate’s version of bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Educators told vendors what they need in educational technology during an industry meeting in San Francisco this week.
Results of a new, nationwide survey show that nearly 60 percent of high schoolers are using their own mobile devices in school.
Companies can have their products evaluated for educational outcomes by Johns Hopkins’ school of education, in a collaboration between the institution and an industry association.
Bipartisan federal student data-privacy legislation likely to be introduced this week would give the Federal Trade Commission new authority to regulate educational technology vendors.
A new online service aims to give education companies a competitive leg up by providing them with detailed insight on major bond issues and capital improvement projects in K-12 districts.
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