The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog has called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to remove Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt from the state’s Smart Schools Commission.
A panel that included K-12 teachers gave attendees at a major education business a blunt view of their frustrations and worries about classroom technologies.
An ad-free search engine, Bing in the Classroom, was launched today by Microsoft, but adults in the community are urged to earn rewards using the “ads-in” version.
Student-athletes attending two dozen virtual schools operated by K12 Inc. will not receive eligibility for their coursework from the NCAA in 2014-15.
Reed Hastings, a Netflix co-founder, charter school backer, and former California state board of education president, says local school board politics stifle innovation.
Only about half of the nation’s teachers regard the digital tools their students use frequently as effective, according to a new nationwide survey of educators.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tells attendees at the ASU/GSV summit that entrepreneurship “is not a threat to public education.”
Deborah Quazzo, a managing partner at GSV Advisors, talks about changes in the education market as her organization co-hosts a major industry gathering this week.
Weld North, an investment company led by former Kaplan CEO Jonathan Grayer, recently announced two major acquisitions of ed-tech companies, Imagine Learning and Truenorthlogic.
A federal lawsuit alleges that the online education provider K12 Inc. misled investors, and says that the company’s former CEO benefited by selling off stock before the company’s stock price fell.