Nearly a year after Illuminate Education was formed out of the integration of five separate education companies, Illuminate has acquired another data operator in the education space. FastBridge Learning produces an assessment platform intended to help teachers measure and monitor student progress.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/16/19
Canvas and Proctorio are partnering to launch new solutions to help students and teachers avoid plagiarism.
Age of Learning is making enhancements to its digital library and literacy platform ReadingIQ to help provide students with books that match their reading level capabilities.
This week at ISTE 2019 in Philadelphia, education publisher Mentoring Minds introduced Itematica, a tool for building and customizing classroom assessments.
Texas, a state that emphasizes workforce pathways for its students in K-12, is considering legislation that would require the Texas Education Agency to track career readiness as an indicator on the state's school accountability system.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/31/19
American girls' scores were higher than boys' scores in the latest national technology and engineering literacy exam, an assessment that asks eighth graders to solve real-world technology and engineering problems.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/20/19
Computer-based testing center company Pearson VUE will be embedding new identity verification into its remote testing service.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/01/19
A new report finds a persistent achievement gap is present among students despite advancements in educational funding.
A Stanford experiment found that low-income high schoolers who rechannel their "negative emotions" during STEM testing can do better on the tests â and the course.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/13/19
Even as the Common Core is faltering in the United States as a way to compare student success across state borders, UNESCO is making a plea for standardized ways to measure learning outcomes around the world.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/29/19