Curriculum Associates, a major producer of instructional materials, will gift $120 million of its shares–in effect, ceding its ownership–to the foundation of Iowa State University.
Local K-12 foundations have more than $500 million in assets and have invested about $160 million in grants and programs, a new report finds.
An Amazon Education executive will lead a company that uses a software platform and consulting to help schools use data to address specific financial and instructional goals.
Lessons Learned About How to Make Online PD Work
WestEd Plans to Commercialize a Formative-Assessment Course After Pilot's Success
Seven states recently took part in a major, extended-length online professional development course for teachers. The results dispel the notion that long-term online PD doesn’t work — and the findings have potentially big implications for schools and vendors.
Small business grant programs act as seed funds for ed-tech startups.
Teachers believe science instruction can be improved by integrating the subject with other academic areas, and encouraging in-depth, independent learning, a report by the NewSchools Venture Fund says.
The major philanthropy misread “the level of resources and support required for our public education systems to be well-equipped to implement the standards,” wrote Sue Desmond-Hellman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Scaling Up Ed-Tech Products: A Look at Barriers–and Potential Strategies
A Gates Foundation Grant-maker Talks About How Digital Companies Can Grow, and Innovate
Sara Allan of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major grant-making force in K-12 education, talks about how digital providers can push for both innovation, and scale, in schools.
The Small Business Innovation Research program, run through the Institute of Education Sciences, funds companies seeking to bring ed-tech products to commercial viability.
The Jefferson Education Accelerator, which seeks to pair education technology companies with university researchers, will receive help from the philanthropy for projects focused on urban schools.