Because of the inroads made by digital materials, the old way of doing business—having the large textbook publishers make their moves in major adoptions, followed by supplemental publishers coming in to fill in specific gaps—has given way.
September 6, 2018From Electronic Education Report , January 3, 2014 The Department of Education in December awarded $120 million to five grantees in the second round of its district-level Race to the Top competition. The winners are: Clarendon County School District Two (consortium of four rural districts), South Carolina, $25 million; Clarksdale Municipal School District, Mississippi, $10 million; Houston Independent School District, Texas, $30 million; Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (consortium ...
January 6, 2014Vermont is one example of a state with a Professional Learning Network. Launched in 2013, it is a statewide system for professional learning related to two objectives: instructional leadership and Common Core implementation.
October 24, 2016After receiving questions regarding conference cancellations, a continually updated table was created as a quick reference.
March 11, 2020Start-ups like digital instructional materials platform provider Red Shelf (Chicago) and incubators and accelerators like EDGE EdTech are among the topics and analysis you’ll find in Ed Tech Startup Quarterly Dashboard, the new publication from Simba Information. Four times a year, Simba corrals the latest news and events among startups in the K-12 and higher education space and combines it with its signature analysis to provide usable data to help content providers, solutions developers and i...
July 17, 2015Some common themes are emerging as educational technology companies address the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Simba Information.
April 27, 2020Private equity companies were big players in the educational technology market in 2017 as they continued to be flush with cash in a generally good economy where interest rates remained low.
January 17, 2018School technology leaders increasingly report that they have infrastructure in place and student devices deployed, but they are still working on ways to use that technology to improve classroom instruction.
July 2, 2018Motor vehicles increasingly feature more electronic components as electronic systems become more sophisticated and advanced drivetrain components become more widespread. Increasing global output of motor vehicles will combine with the expanding scope of products in which electronic components are used as significant drivers of growth.
May 9, 2018The Federal Communications Commission in January made plans to invest $2 billion over the next two years to expand high-speed Internet connectivity for schools and libraries, in line with the Obama ConnectED initiative. The White House says the new effort will bring America close to giving 99 percent of schoolchildren Internet access within five years. Funding for new investments in high-speed Internet will come from reprioritizing existing E-Rate funds to focus on high-capacity Internet conne...
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