Duolingo raised $30 million, while Mentoring Minds, which provides K-12 critical thinking materials, has acquired instructional management platform SchoolSpire. Data management and analytics provider Hoonuit picked up Tembo, a public assessment and accountability reporting company.
The Fastest Growing Ed-Tech Companies in North America
EdWeek Market Brief Breaks Out the Education Players From Deloitte's List of Tech Providers
Deloitte named its 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America. Thirty-nine of them touch the world of education in ways big or small.
An Arizona school system wants to adopt textbooks for advanced high school math courses, and a California K-12 purchasing cooperative is seeking a student information system.
A Florida District Leader’s Take on What’s Missing in Assessment
Pinellas County Wants to See a More Complete Picture of Its Students From the Data It Collects
It’s time to move beyond math and reading scores in evaluating students, says the Pinellas County school district’s executive director of assessment, accountability, and research.
A Phoenix school district wants to adopt textbooks for environmental science courses and a Utah school system is purchasing a math curriculum for middle school.
They Were Named Superintendents of the Year. Here’s What They Want From Vendors
Schools Chiefs From California, Texas, Virginia, Kansas, and Illinois Want Interdisciplinary Products and Better Assessments
Five superintendents who have been recognized for their leadership talk about the products, and the performance, they wish they were receiving from vendors.
A Texas school district is seeking a web-based music education software. A school system in Minnesota is looking to buy a post-secondary planning software and support services.
A Texas school district is seeking a K-3 phonics program, and Metro Nashville schools want language proficiency tests, while evaluators for a substance abuse prevention expansion program are sought in Duval County, Fla.
A Texas district is seeking a social-emotional learning package, and Detroit wants a social studies curriculum, while a Phoenix school system needs textbooks for its two technology programs.
How the Future of Work Will Heap New Pressure on K-12 Companies
The Lifespan of Products in Curriculum and Other Areas Could Get Shorter, Some Predict
Schools will increasingly count on education vendors to deliver products that cultivate analytic skills and collaborative ability, labor experts say.