A two-year independent commission studying the future of education and especially the effective use of assessment to measure student learning has issued a public policy statement calling for policymakers to turn their attention on the use of assessments to providing timely information to students and teachers rather than school and teacher accountability.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/12/13
Despite tough economic circumstances and sequestration, investment in education technology "can't wait," according to United States Representative George Miller, who addressed education leaders Monday at the CoSN 2013 conference in San Diego, CA. Miller has introduced legislation that would bring $750 million in funding specifically targeted toward technology in education, funding that has dried up with the end of EETT and ARRA.
Educators can now access a new free resource designed to help measure student comprehension and mastery of mathematical concepts.
Chicago Public Schools and City Colleges of Chicago have decided to transition from traditional paper transcript exchanges to electronic transcript exchange services.
A new report from CoSN also finds that the majority of school tech budgets will decline or remain flat in the upcoming year.
This week Samsung unveiled the five grand prize winners of its Solve for Tomorrow contest.
Promethean and Boxlight have partnered to make Promethean's ActivInspire software available with Boxlight's ProjectoWrite and OutWrite interactive projectors.
Council Rock School District has added several applications to help improve network security.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/11/13
By the end of this year, nonprofit education organization CFY plans to boost its K-3 resources by adding 1,000-plus new activities and more than 80 playlists to its K-12 online learning portal.
- By Sharleen Nelson
- 03/11/13
BenchPrep, a developer of online and mobile courses, is now offering 40 video courses in software training, math, science, and business.