The chairman and co-founder of Curriculum Associates is being inducted into the Educational Publishers Hall of Fame, a milestone in his decades of work in the field.
“Twelve a Dozen,” is Amplify’s first attempt to sell directly into the consumer space, as opposed to going after buyers based in K-12 districts.
A Harvard Business School study links the strength of U.S. K-12 education to America’s future competitiveness, and encourages businesses to find ways to support education locally and beyond.
Desire2Learn, a Canadian-based LMS provider, raised $85 million in Series B funding, bringing its total external investment to $165 million.
Sales of Chromebooks worldwide have risen by 79 percent from 2013, though they will remain a “niche market” for next few years, according to a new market analysis.
Edmodo, the free social-networking-for-education site, recently raised $30 million in venture capital, bringing its total capital raised to $87 million.
Smaller tablet vendors reported an increase in global sales in the second quarter of 2014, according to research from IDC.
A recent acquisition by ACT and a merger of two global companies reinforce just how competitive the ed-tech market has become.
OpenEd, a free catalog of more than a million Web-based resources for the common core, raised $2 million in its first round of venture-capital funding.
Iranian students have regained access to U.S.-based MOOCs following the authorization of certain educational exchanges between the two countries.
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