The vast majority of education mergers and acquisitions over the past two years were “strategic” transactions, as judged by transaction volume, research shows.
Twenty-five percent of high school students in school wide Title 1 programs said they had a school-provided tablet, while 13 percent of non-Title 1 students had that type of device, according to a Project Tomorrow survey.
Amazon recently announced a major deal in Brazil, a booming ed-tech market, to distribute free textbooks via a Kindle reading app to teachers using government-issued tablets.
Yale University President Richard Levin has been named CEO of ‘MOOC’ provider Coursera, which has recently grown interested in K-12 teacher training.
Some Maine residents and lawmakers are worried about the implications of Pearson’s involvement, through Connections Education LLC, in the state’s first virtual charter school.
Three-fourths of school districts are counting on the testing consortia to provide them with common-core instructional materials, according to an MDR survey.
Amplify, a subsidiary of media giant News Corp., released a digital curriculum at the SXSWedu conference Monday that combines content with analytics and games.
Two more new technology companies say they’ve agreed to provide $400 million worth of goods and services for schools’ digital efforts, as part of the White House’s “ConnectED” program.
Startups trying to carve out a place in the education market need products that can help teachers immediately, and without glitches, a group of industry advisers recommend.
The Federal Communications Commission vowed Wednesday to put forward rules to protect “net neutrality, though the commmision’s two Republican members panned the proposal.