Ten technology developers have won contracts to develop units for a group of states seeking “open educational resources.”
The state has given notice to a vendor and the Smarter Balanced testing consortium that they are in “breach of contract” after a series of testing glitches.
Montana’s state superintendent says statewide assessments will be made optional, following problems on a test administered by the vendor Measured Progress.
A new Education Week special report profiles school districts’ efforts to bring blended learning home by increasing needy students’ access to out-of-school Wi-Fi.
South Carolina officials violated various pieces of state procurement law in awarding a $58 million contracts to the ACT Inc., a top procurement panel has ruled.
Silicon Valley tech company HP and Knewton, the developer of digital learner profiles, are partnering on an effort to bring “adaptive” print products into K-12 schools.
Fewer than 30 percent of K-12 school technology officials believe their districts are ready for online testing, according to the Consortium for School Networking.
Deborah S. Delisle, a top official at the U.S. Department of Education, said amid a growing anti-testing backlash, state and local officials need to evaluate how their assessments are used.
A nonprofit organization is asking for information from K-12 districts and ed-tech vendors about the benefits and drawbacks of “pilot tryouts” of products.
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.