The nation’s second-largest district is poised to settle a dispute with Apple and Lenovo stemming from the system’s problematic 1:1 technology rollout.
The rising popularity of Chromebooks is driving down the prices that schools pay for devices, with the $200 to $299 category commanding the biggest segment.
Smarter Balanced will review the validity of test results from three states that experienced disruptions on their tests last year.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have adopted Next Generation Science Standards, which could shape schools’ demand for content for years to come.
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has arranged an independent evaluation of an open-source delivery platform it paid the American Institutes for Research to develop.
The National Federation of the Blind questions whether e-books that educators will purchase through Amazon’s storefront are likely to be fully useful to its community.
A vendor blamed for recent disruptions in online assessments will pay financial penalties, under an agreement with Nevada’s state Attorney General.
Fifty-four percent of public school parents oppose having teachers in their communities follow the common-core standards, a PDK/Gallup poll found.
Total spending on K-12 instructional materials stood at $11.8 billion in 2013-14, according to the Education Market Association.
Nevada’s state board of examiners has awarded a $51 million contract for statewide testing to DRC, which will replaced Measured Progress, a company that took blame for testing breakdowns earlier this year.