Six Edtech Predictions for K12
Alex Hernandez is a partner at Charter School Growth Fund, a venture philanthropy that provides growth capital for high-performing charter school networks. He claims massive declines in state and local education funding will lead to a tsunami of blended learning programs, where students learn online in brick-and-mortar schools.
Union Square Investment Puts Edmodo in High Gear
Union Square Ventures makes their first education investment and backs Edmodo, the largest and fastest growing social learning platform
CCSSO Helms EdSteps Project for Promoting Learning
A project led by Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, EdSteps is being developed in partnership with state departments of education, school districts, institutions of higher education, non-profit organizations, businesses, and individual participants from across the nation.
Agora Cyber Charter Opens Learning Center
PHILADELPHIA -- Agora Cyber Charter School, one of the state's largest public cyber schools, today celebrated the grand opening of its innovative new learning center in Philadelphia.
Video: PISA Top Performer, Shanghai, China
Pearson Foundation and OECD showcase Shanghai, China's efforts in teaching Math and Science. This work has made them one of the highest performers in the PISA study released today. In this city, higher-performing schools help struggling weaker schools.
Pearson Foundation Releases Global Video Series
OECD and the Pearson Foundation announce a new series of investigative films that document successful education initiatives currently improving student learning in classrooms around the world.
Compton Parents Rally to Turn Around School
Parents in Compton, California are using the "parent trigger" to take over a low-performing school and make it worthy of their students' expectations for learning.
Governor Bob Wise Responds to PISA Scores
Former Governor Bob Wise on PISA results: “In what has become the Olympics of academic performance, these international test results show that U.S. students’ performance is improving, but we are still a long way from being an educational Olympic-medal winner."
Gates Awards Tutor.com Professional Development Grant
Tutor.com, the largest online tutoring and homework help service, has been awarded a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a completely new professional development model that will provide on-demand, one-to-one support for math teachers.
Ed Market to Pass US$5 Trillion by 2018, neXt Advisors
neXt Advisors' Michael Moe says the education market is doing more than just heating up. Some evidence: this interesting report fsaying that the education marketplace will be worth US$5.9 Trillion by 2018. Click for some high quality analysis inside...