Clark County, Nev. wants supplemental math and ELA curricula, while Indiana seeks alternate assessments and Township High School District No. 113, Ill., wants an LMS.
A major South Florida district wants to buy a plagiarism-detection software solution, while a Michigan public school and Tennessee school district are looking for digital tools to complement their curricula.
What Teachers and Parents Need From Assessment Companies
Many Educators Struggle to Interpret Test Results, a Survey Suggests. K-12 Providers Can Help Them
Parents are hungry for testing information, but school districts and vendors need to do much more to help families interpret assessments, an executive from a top testing organization says.
Take a Look Inside a Booming K-12 Market: the United Arab Emirates
The Country Has Hundreds of Private Schools With an Appetite for STEM Curricula, Data, and Technology
The United Arab Emirates is a relatively small country with a huge private school market, and a number of vendors are making their mark.
McGraw-Hill Education has tried to make a big shift into digital products and adaptive learning.
New Science Assessments Raise Expectations for K-12 Companies
Challenge for Vendors, Policymakers Is Aligning Tests to Instructional Goals
Experts say there is a significant gap between the type of assessments needed to align to the Next Generation Science standards and what is available in the marketplace.
Pearson is appealing the award of a $31 million testing contract to the American Institutes for Research, one of a number of assessment deals secured by AIR over the past few weeks.
Indiana officials awarded a contract worth $43 million, Iowa agreed to a deal valued at $31 million, and North Dakota also selected the vendor.
In this week’s dealmaking news, St. Louis-based Varsity Tutors acquired UK-based First Tutors. In addition, RYB Education, a Chinese early child education provider, announced its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.
Regarding numeracy, U.S. adults at each of the three recorded levels of education attainment had lower results than averages for the rest of the developed world. American adults ages 16-65 without a high school diploma had an average score of 204 points. U.S. adults who were high school graduates scored an average of 243. Finally, Americans with at least an associate’s degree averaged a numeracy score of 287 points. By comparison, the international averages at each level of education attainment were 237, 268, and 296 points, respectively.
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