- by Kathy Mickey
- October 15 2019
- education
- k-12
- K-12 products
- prek-12
- prek-12 market
- schools
- testing
Schools Test Changes to Measuring Student Achievement
The period from 2000 through 2018 as schools went through the No Child Left Behind and Common Core eras saw intensifying pressure around testing and led to the more recent movement to reduce the amount of time spent taking tests and preparing for them. The state of the industry and the market appears to be calming down.
- by Karen Meaney
- September 26 2019
- education
- education market
- educational media
- instructional materials
- schools
Social Studies Market is Strong in 2019
"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.
- by Kathy Mickey
- August 7 2018
- academic publishing
- educational technology
- k-12
- K-12 products
- prek-12
- prek-12 market
- schools
K-12 Publishers Adapt to Changing Demand in Schools
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Publishers are approaching changes in the PreK-12 instructional materials market in different ways
- by Karen Meaney
- July 2 2018
- digital learning
- education
- education funding
- educational tablets
- educational technology
- k-12
- K-12 products
- schools
Educators Look for “Integrated Ala Carte”
School 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.
- by Karen Meaney
- June 15 2018
- education
- educational technology
- k-12
- K-12 products
- schools
Looking to the Future of K-12 Education
A window into the future of education can be seen in the accelerator programs supporting educational technology development and in the changes schools are making to get ready for new ways to teach and learn.
- by Karen Meaney
- May 17 2018
- classroom
- education
- educational technology
- k-12
- K-12 products
- public school
- schools
Robots Coming to Classrooms to Engage Young Students
Companies are offering, and schools are considering, more options for using robots in primary education as research indicates children are capable of STEM learning at an early age.
- by Kathy Mickey
- May 8 2018
- education
- educational technology
- k-12
- K-12 products
- public school
- schools
Pushing out Walls and Shunning Desks for New Ways of Learning
Schools of the future typically include plenty of open spaces, including learning commons, makerspaces and wide hallways to encourage collaboration.
- by Daniel Granderson
- March 16 2018
- classroom
- Ed tech
- education
- educational technology
- k-12
- K-12 products
- schools
- technology
The Role of Technology in Schools of the Future
In personalized education--where each student works on unique problems and projects, tackles new subjects at his or her own pace, and moves forward only when reaching competency--goes hand-in-hand with technology.
- by Karen Meaney
- February 2 2017
- digital content
- digital device usage
- digital devices
- digital games
- digital learning
- Ed tech
- education
- education market
- educational media
- educational tablets
- educational technology
- k-12
- K-12 products
- kids
- prek-12
- prek-12 market
- schools
- Simba
- students
- teaching materials
Is Spending for Classroom Hardware Short-Changing Materials Spending?
Given the limited budgetary resources of many public districts and schools, it has been speculated that increased spending for classroom hardware may be depressing spending on traditional instructional materials.
Neverware
The New York based company, founded in 2011 by chief executive officer Jonathan Hefter, provides cost-effective software that eliminates the need to replace desktop computers. Instead of periodically replacing hardware, Neverware allows schools and businesses to have the fastest available desktop computer speeds using the hardware they currently have.
Initially, the desktop system cost schools $149 per computer per year but in February 2015 the company launched a cloud version of its operating...
