K-12 instructional materials, furniture and supplies distributor School Specialty (Greenville, WI) named Joseph Yorio president and CEO. Yorio succeeds Jim Henderson , who served as interim president and CEO since July 2013, when then-president and CEO Michael Lavelle left the company after it emerged from voluntary bankruptcy proceedings in June. Henderson will continue to serve as chairman of the company’s board of directors. Yorio most recently served as president and CEO of NYX Global, a bus...
May 13, 2014"K-12 Social Studies Market Survey Report 2019" provides information on what resources educators are using for social studies instruction and sizes the dollar value of the market for social studies instructional materials in 2019.
September 26, 2019One of the biggest drivers of market change for providers of K-12 instructional materials is the disruption in the testing industry, as states continue to change their testing requirements for students.
July 1, 2019Conjuring up Jack Nicholson in “The Shining” or repetitive efforts to repeal The Affordable Care Act, The Affordable College Textbook Act was re-introduced September 26 in Congress
September 29, 2017New print textbooks are no longer the dominant format of higher education course materials, as covered in Simba's new report, State of College Course Materials 2016-2017
October 18, 2017The idea of a ‘traditional’ higher education is changing with declining enrollment rates, students’ preference for technology, and open education resources that threaten the market’s older publishers.
April 21, 2017Instructional materials for high school world language learning represent a $150 million dollar market opportunity, according to EMC school, a major instructional materials market competitor.
October 31, 2017Several forces are at work in the U.S. market for higher education instructional materials, which Simba Information believes likely will have a long-term impact on the role of course materials in colleges and universities in the coming years.
January 24, 2018After more than a decade of big changes dictated by Washington, D.C., states are now re-asserting their individual goals.
August 23, 2017