- by Karen Meaney
- October 22 2018
- education
- education market
- educational technology
- prek-12
- prek-12 market
Cambium Learning Joins Move to Private Equity
Cambium Learning Group is being sold to private equity Veritas Capital, with holders of Cambium common stock entitled to receive $14.50 in cash per share at the expected closing of the deal in fourth quarter 2018 or first quarter 2019.
- by Karen Meaney
- October 9 2018
- education
- Every Student Succeeds Act
- students
With Florida Approval, All 50 States Ready to Implement ESSA
All 50 states have approved plans for implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act after the September approval of the fifth version of a plan from Florida by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
- by Karen Meaney
- October 2 2018
- education
- k-12
- K-12 products
- textbooks
U.S. Textbook Exports Fall 7.3% in First Half of the Year
In an era of trade wars and challenges to traditional formats and distribution models, U.S. education publishers are re-examining their business models for approaching international markets.
- by Kathy Mickey
- September 6 2018
- digital learning
- education
- educational technology
- prek-12
- prek-12 market
Digital Media Captures 56.6% Share of PreK-12 Instructional Materials in 2017
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.
- by Karen Meaney
- August 22 2018
- education market
- educational technology
- k-12
- K-12 products
- publishing
K12 Inc. Investments Point to Interest in Digital Learning and Workforce Readiness
K12 Inc., manager of virtual schools and provider of online learning resources, in August made a $9 million investment in STEM Premier to help grow the online community that links current and future workforce talent with organizational recruiting needs in a variety of career fields.
- 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 Dan Strempel
- July 11 2018
- journal
- open access books
- open access journals
- publishing
Five Reasons Why Publishing Science for Profit Endures
Elsevier, Springer Nature, John Wiley & Sons and Informa have fended off the advent of preprint article repositories, open access journals, funder mandates, boycotts and big deal library subscription cancellations.
Here are five reasons why these leading companies continue to endure...
- by Kathy Mickey
- July 9 2018
- education
- education market
- educational media
- educational technology
- k-12
- textbooks
Your Voice: Q&A - The Future of Educational Publishing
EM recently chatted with Bradley Metrock, CEO of Score Publishing, which owns and operates Digital Book World, about the future of educational publishing.
- 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 22 2018
- classroom
- education
- k-12
- students
More English-Language Learners Enter U.S. Schools
A growing population of English-language learners presents educational publishers with an opportunity to provide them with materials to advance their learning.
