College faculty at Marian University have created a method for judging education apps by research standards.
New Mexico’s state purchasing agent, Lawrence O. Maxwell, has denied a protest of a major common-core testing contract that was filed by the American Institutes for Research.
One of the nation’s biggest ed-tech conferences, expected to draw at least 18,000 attendees, has opened in Atlanta.
The American Institutes for Research, in its protest over a common-core testing contract, argues that Pearson and PARCC are behaving like “business partners.”
A division of McGraw-Hill is partnering with Follett in an effort to sell e-books focused on test-prep through online forums.
New Mexico state officials describe a protest over a major common-core testing contract by the American Institutes for Research as “frivolous,” in a filing with the state purchasing director.
The Obama administration, in the latest phase of its “ConnectED” plan, has launched a website to direct K-12 schools to digital products offered by technology companies.
Iranian students have regained access to U.S.-based MOOCs following the authorization of certain educational exchanges between the two countries.
Schoology, an American developer of learning management systems, has won a contract to deliver services in Uruguay, which has embarked on one of the world’s most ambitious ed-tech projects.
Purchases of instructional materials fell by 4 percent in the 1st quarter of 2014 compared with the same period in 2013, possibly because of districts’ uncertainty about the common-core implementation, according to the Association of American Publishers.