Illinois is looking for high school accountability assessments, including a college entrance exam. Dallas seeks a learning management system for pre-K-12, and Montgomery Public Schools, Ala., wants network cabling materials.
K-12 systems in Washington state and California are planning to buy student enrollment systems, and a Colorado district has put out an RFP for a learning management platform.
Curriculum Tops Digital Devices, PD, and Assessment as K-12 Purchasing Priority for 2018
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Curriculum is the top purchasing priority of 2018, a new, exclusive EdWeek Market Brief survey of K-12 district leaders suggests.
San Diego wants online courses aligned to University of California standards, and the Joplin, Mo. schools are looking for student data management. The Bristol Tennessee city school district is looking to purchase web hosting and content management services for district sites.
Digital House, an Argentine company that offers intensive technology courses and executive programs to the Latin American market, has raised $20 million.
New York’s state education department requests summer college-prep programs for deaf students, while an Alaska district is looking for a student information system, and a rural Missouri district wants new networking equipment.
A Massachusetts district seeks a learning management system, while systems in Dallas and San Antonio target digital management of health and police records.
The study showed that half of the time schools access ed-tech tools is for operational purposes (such as using online gradebooks) and for research and data gathering.
San Diego Unified is looking for an internet content-filtering solution, and Canon City schools in Colorado want professional development for a Chromebook implementation. The Lancaster, Pa. district seeks a student information system.
Professional development platform BetterLesson and China-based English language learning company ALO7 raised funds.