Social reading site Glose raises funds to expand into the education market; Accelerate Learning gains significant new investors,; and Grand Canyon Education seeks to acquire Orbis Education Services.
Google has acquired Workbench, an online platform that aims to help students with maker projects and other STEM lessons.
Kentucky’s Fayette County is looking to buy a K-8 STEM program for girls; and an Alabama school system is planning a big Chromebook purchase.
Take a Look at the STEM Approaches Districts Value Most
Survey Results Show Companies Should Pay Attention to Project-Based Learning
Survey results show companies should pay attention to schools’ needs for products and services around project-based learning and coding curricula.
Physical computing means using creating or using devices, like robots, and getting them to interact in with the world around them.
An interview with William Lau, the author of “Teaching Computing in Secondary Schools,” withadvice about avoiding common misconceptions about teaching the subject.
A Maryland district seeks an elementary social-emotional learning program, while the Nashville district wants school choice software, and a Connecticut school system needs a STEM curriculum.
The nation’s biggest ed-tech conference begins this week in Chicago. See what’s on the agenda.
All students should be exposed to computer science, but state and local policies, economics, and geography cause some students to be left out of this experience.
Superintendent Takes Valuable Lessons With Him to the Private Sector
Companies Don't Spend Enough Time Trying to Understand the Problems They're Attempting to Solve, He Says
Education companies don’t spend enough time trying to understand the problems they’re attempting to help schools solve, says the former Palm Beach County, Fla., superintendent.