At least seven Southern California school districts allow commercial film production in their schools, but the revenue-raising practice has been suspended in L.A. Unified.
Attendees at a Chicago gathering explored the potential for regional clusters of businesses, colleges, nonprofits, and schools to work together to support innovation.
A national meeting sponsored by Digital Promise will focus on how people in specific cities or regions are pooling their talents and resources to improve schools.
The former deputy secretary of education, known as a champion of the government’s Investing in Innovation fund, will join 2U, Inc.
Europe’s market for ed-tech is big, and diverse, but not friendly to startups trying to raise capital, panelists said at the South by Southwest EDU conference.
Curriculet, a digital-reading platform, became the latest education business to partner with a major news provider to offer content for schools.
With 14 education innovation clusters in the United States, ed-tech advocates are working to connect the dots into a network to share lessons learned.
Complications around student-data-privacy, frustrations with the K-12 procurement process, and the lure of the global marketplace are some key trends to watch in 2015.
The first Pathways in Technology Early College High School opened in 2011, and now there are 27 such schools. An online playbook spells out how to start more.
A Harvard Business School study links the strength of U.S. K-12 education to America’s future competitiveness, and encourages businesses to find ways to support education locally and beyond.