Deborah Quazzo, a Chicago school board member and founder of a financial advisory company, faces questions about businesses she’s invested in that are working in the city’s schools.
A new partnership between Fuel Education and PresenceLearning seeks to make virtual special education services a reality for millions of students.
As some schools turn from tablets to Chromebooks, new research shows that worldwide shipments of tablets have fallen for the first time since that data was collected.
Despite the claims of critics of testing, states’ spending on assessment is a small fraction of overall K-12 budgets, a researcher concludes.
States and school districts would see new money for teacher-training, “personalized learning,” and other efforts under a $200 million budget proposal from President Obama.
The Herndon, Va.-based online education company’s stock price jumped more than 30 percent on Thursday, representing a partial rebound from a major stock slide in 2014.
A draft measure being circulated on Capitol Hill would bar ed-tech vendors from directing targeted advertisements to students, though it does not cover some controversial practices.
Tim Kelly, who is credited with leading the society’s transition into digital media, is helping to launch a game-based learning platform, according to an SEC filing.
Plans are underway to wind down the New Schools Venture Fund’s seed fund, which has supported education efforts with philanthropic dollars.
Citelighter, an ed-tech startup with an online platform designed to break the writing process down into simple steps, raised $2 million in Seed-2 financing.