AT&T, RedShelf, CodeHS, and TeachMate365 headlined an active week of K-12 venture capital.
The worldwide education company recently sold back its 5 percent stake in Nook Media, Barnes & Noble’s struggling e-reader division, for nearly $28 million.
A review of field testing for the PARCC tests found that many school officials had frustrations student with the student- registration process and test-administration manuals.
Two educational technology companies, one a publisher and the other a data management software provider, teamed up to relieve teachers and administrators of password overload.
Pearson’s charitable arm, which settled a lawsuit last year that was focused on whether Pearson profited off of its nonprofit activities, will close at the end of the year.
A new study of districts’ common-core implementation finds that instructional materials purchased from businesses are less likely to be used in classrooms than teacher-developed curricula.
David Wiley, a supporter for open-educational resources, argues that the “learning outcomes per dollar” from free and open resources tops that of the traditional materials produced by commercial publishers.
Companies are selling academic materials designed to appeal to parents and others demanding an alternative to the common-core standards.
The American Institutes for Research has reached out to PARCC to try to resolve a dispute over a lucrative, and controversial, common-core testing contract awarded to Pearson.
College faculty at Marian University have created a method for judging education apps by research standards.