One of the nation’s biggest ed-tech conferences, expected to draw at least 18,000 attendees, has opened in Atlanta.
A division of McGraw-Hill is partnering with Follett in an effort to sell e-books focused on test-prep through online forums.
Tom Allen, the president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, said that number of competing dynamics are shaping implementation of the common-core standards in the states, and that his industry needs to put its stamp on that discussion.
Industry officials offered contrasting views of how quickly the print-to-digital transition in K-12 publishing is playing out.
An official from the market research company MDR told educational publishers that their companies are likely to see better days as K-12 school budgets improve.
McGraw-Hill Education is bringing Create, a platform that has allowed college professors to build their own course materials piece-by-piece, into the K-12 market.
The list of finalists for the Software and Information Industry Association’s annual “CODiE” awards includes some of the biggest names in the education field, but also many relative unknowns.
Three-fourths of school districts are counting on the testing consortia to provide them with common-core instructional materials, according to an MDR survey.
The number of education-focused mergers and acquistions rose during the most recent year, according to an analysis by Berkery Noyes, a investment bank.
Sales of education publishers’ print and digital K-12 products jumped 7 percent in 2013 over the previous year, according to the Association of American Publishers.