K-12 Technology News
Here you'll find the latest news from the education technology world, from the newest hardware and software releases to policy and funding updates to research reports to school and district tech initiatives. Looking for more in-depth coverage of important topics? Be sure to visit our Features page.
Iowa's Buena Vista University is launching a new track within one of its online master's degrees that uses Discovery Education's streaming service and teacher professional learning community.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/18/19
Two organizations, one liberal and the other conservative, have announced a joint project to seek new ideas that will "revolutionize schooling." The deadline for applications is August 1, 2019.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/18/19
SETDA, the State Educational Technology Directors Association, announced its seventh annual cohort of "emerging private sector partners," start-ups that the organization believes state and district technical education leaders ought to learn more about.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/18/19
Two schools that have come to represent all that can possibly go wrong with virtual public school education are set to close.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/17/19
Education assessment nonprofit ACT has acquired a company that specializes in the field of social and emotional learning (SEL). ACT purchased Mawi Learning, which produces SEL-focused educator professional development and student curriculum. Terms of the deal were not released.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/16/19
The new Discovery Education Experience (formerly Streaming Plus) will be available at the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/16/19
The High School Esports League, which claims a membership of 1,500 high schools, is offering the "HSEL Esports Equipment Bundle" for $4,000 per year.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/16/19
When city and state leaders in Rhode Island saw the lousy results of a new standardized test among Providence Public School District students, they called in experts from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy to examine what the problems were.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/16/19
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
In four years of reviewing more than 90 percent of the materials in the "known" math and English language arts market, just 27 percent of math and 49 percent of ELA offerings aligned with learning standards. Furthermore, the data showed that just 15 percent of curriculum regularly used by ELA teachers and 23 percent of that used by math teachers have aligned with the standards.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/15/19