- by kmeaney@marketresearch.com
- April 13 2015
- federal funding
- Title I
- ESEA reauthorization
Districts Benefit from Title I Bump
From Electronic Education Report, April 10, 2015
Funding for Title I, the largest elementary and secondary education program that funds support for low-achieving children especially in high-poverty schools, climbed in fiscal year 2014, ended Sept. 30, 2014, to $14.38 billion, up from $13.76 billion in fiscal 2013 when sequester budget cuts took effect.
The 50 school districts that receive the largest Title I allocations were scheduled to receive $3.67 billion of the grants allocated to local...
- by dstrempel@marketresearch.com
- February 10 2015
- legal publishing
- M&A
- Dan Strempel
- Simba
More Deals Could Be On Way For ALM Media
By Jaewon Kang, excerpt from TheDeal.com, Dec. 31, 2014
Even as ALM Media Properties LLC nears completing its first deal under new private equity backer Wasserstein & Co. LP, the New York media house is evaluating more acquisitions in the professional services industry.
In December, ALM Media acquired Kennedy Consulting Research & Advisory from Bloomberg LP subsidiary Kennedy Information LLC. ALM and Kennedy did not disclose financial terms of the latest transaction. The deal includes Consul...
- by kmeaney@marketresearch.com
- November 6 2014
- education funding
- charter schools
- Common Core
- teacher evaluations
Election Results Mixed for Education Future
From Electronic Education Report, November 7, 2014
Looked at in broad strokes, the mid-term elections of 2014 were a victory for the Republican Party, which picked up seven seats to win control of the Senate, expanded its House of Representatives majority by an additional 12 seats and won three more governors’ mansion. Looked at in education terms, the results are more mixed in how they will impact funding, the Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations and collective bargaining rights a...
- by kmeaney@marketresearch.com
- September 16 2014
- educational tablets
- bandwidth
- GIFs
- online curriculum
$59 Tablet Sales Exceed Initial Availability
From Electronic Education Report, Sept. 12, 2014
MobyMax (Potomac, MD) introduced the $59 Moby Tablet this summer and CEO Glynn Willett told EER the company cannot supply enough to meet the market demand.
Willett described the Moby device as a complete education tablet that comes loaded with MobyMax’s online K-8 curriculum for math, reading, writing, language and literature. The tablet features a seven-inch screen and has teacher control features to avoid student distraction.
In addition t...
- by kmeaney@marketresearch.com
- July 30 2014
FCC E-Rate Modernization Plan Should Benefit Software Industry
From Electronic Education Report, July 18, 2014
The E-rate program over its 18-year life has helped connect almost all U.S. schools and libraries to the Internet. With a new set of rules issued in July, the Federal Communications Commission laid the groundwork to continue to support broadband connectivity to buildings while expanding support for robust Wi-Fi networks within classrooms for digital learning.
The changes made by the FCC are intended to:
•Significantly expand funding for Wi-Fi...
- by vchernetskyy@marketresearch.com
- June 19 2014
- digital device usage
- tablets
- mobile devices
- national survey
- instructional materials
How Prevalent Is Digital Device Usage in Classroom Instruction?
Some of the most frequently asked questions around EMR in recent months have been about the deployment of tablet computers and other mobile devices in K-12 classrooms. If you are a computer company, such as Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Google, etc., or an investment banker who follows computer companies, you obviously need to know how your brand is doing compared to its competitors. You’d want to know who has the highest market share. Ideally, you’d also like to know which tablet brand(s) educator...
- by kmeaney@marketresearch.com
- May 13 2014
- instructional materials
- company leadership
School Specialty Names Yorio
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...
- by kmeaney@marketresearch.com
- April 29 2014
- Project Tomorrow
- digital learning
- mobile device use
- gaming
Students Seek Real-Life Technology Experiences in School
From Electronic Education Report , April 25, 2014
Students would like their classroom experiences with technology to more closely mirror their experiences outside of school, according to a Speak Up survey conducted by Project Tomorrow.
Project Tomorrow in April released The New Digital Learning Playbook: Understanding the Spectrum of Students’ Activities and Aspirations based on a 2013 online survey completed by more than 400,000 K-12 students, parents, teachers, administrators and community...
- by kmeaney@marketresearch.com
- March 27 2014
- educational technology
- tablets
- Chromebooks
- 1:1 computing
- digital content
Samsung Markets to Schools
Simba Information talked to Samsung senior manager education Diane Ashby about company efforts in K-12 in the March 28 issue of Electronic Education Report. An accompanying article in the issue details Samsung’s partnerships with three school districts.
Samsung (Ridgefield Park, NJ) is a brand widely known in the consumer space that also competes in the K-20 market; this spring the company is introducing new Chromebook and tablet options for schools.
Samsung is hearing that there are three a...
- by kmeaney@marketresearch.com
- March 13 2014
- federal budget
- education funding
- Title I
- IDEA
- STEM
Obama’s 2015 Spending Plan Would Boost Education
President Barack Obama in March proposed $68.6 billion in discretionary spending for the Department of Education in fiscal 2015, which would be a 1.9% increase from fiscal 2014, but the spending plan as proposed is unlikely to be acted upon in a Congressional election year
Additionally, late in 2013 Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act , which set discretionary funding levels for two years. Under that agreement, forged to avoid another government shutdown, Congress restored half of the se...
