The Palm Beach, Fla., school district is looking for a mass notification and web management platform to improve internal and external communications, and the Provo, Utah, district has its eye on assessment software.
ETS announced plans to acquire the K-12 testing organization Questar Assessment. In the Indian market, Cuemath raised $15 million from investors including CapitalG.
Minneapolis wants community-based learning and a Texas district seeks an assessment software.
A new survey from the International Literacy Association finds that what many teachers regard as “hot” in national conversations about literacy isn’t what they think is most important.
Past and present members of the International Literacy Association, most of whom were teachers or literacy/instructional coaches, and other teachers, academics, government workers and literacy professionals were asked to rate a set of 17 topics related to literacy on how “hot” and how “important” the topics are in their communities and in their countries.
A New Mexico school system needs software to test students and store performance results. Meanwhile, a Missouri district looks to buy an attendance monitoring system.
The PARCC assessment consortium has outlined plans in an RFP for a major restructuring designed to make it easier for states to use its test content–and also to ensure its own long-term survival.
Districts’ Desire for Evidence Base Varies by Ed-Tech Product
Administators' Views of Research Differ Depending on Size, Location of K-12 System
District officials have very different views of the importance of judging products by their research base — depending on whether the potential purchase is an academic intervention, learning game, or ELL-focused products.
U.S. students performance on different math topics, such as geometry, algebra, and number theory varied widely according to the latest results of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, a prominent international exam.
The commonwealth of Kentucky is drawing up a list of companies to intervene in academically struggling schools. Meanwhile, Nashville’s school system bought a gifted and talented screening assessment from Pearson.
Louisiana state officials are on the hunt for test-security services at the state and local levels. And the St. Louis school district is in the market for a web-based assessment system.