A report by an advocacy group labels Ron Packard, CEO of K12 Inc., among a group of corporate executives who worked to “privatize public services.”
Chris Cerf is leaving his post as New Jersey’s education commissioner to become chief executive of Amplify, a company that is preparing to launch new digital curriculum and assessment.
The Miami-Dade school system, which has 350,000 students, has announced it will move ahead with an ambitious technology plan, after initially delaying the project.
The federal government wants input about how to shape competitions that would produce educational technology and other success-oriented solutions for K-12, higher education, and lifelong learning.
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, 34 state schools chief vowed to not share personally identifiable student data with the federal government.
The Obama administration is hosting a “datapalooza” event to examine how private sector tech innovations can help students and families sort through college decisions.
The federal ‘Learning Registry’ seeks to provide K-12 educators with access to a vast library of material from nonprofits, government agencies, and commercial providers.
Our most popular stories of 2013 tackled teachers’ spending habits, growth in the global education market, and three common core-related issues.
The National Joint Powers Alliance awarded five companies contracts for curriculum in the cooperative purchasing organization’s first move into the pre-K to college instructional sector.
Comcast, one of the nation’s largest Internet and cable providers, is partnering with Khan Academy to try to increase Web connectivity for impoverished students.