GlassLab
Featured Ed Tech Startup
In a financial sense, GlassLab is not a traditional startup. It’s a non-profit that is transforming learning and assessment practices through digital games and technology. In 2012, the year GlassLab launched, it received $10 million in funding from Electronic Arts, the Entertainment Software Association, and the MacArthur and Gates foundations. In June 2014, the company was chosen to join Pearson’s ed tech accelerator program Catalyst, where startups are chosen based o...
- by fpierre@marketresearch.com
- April 8 2016
- Ed tech
- startup
- education
- technology
- k-12
- publishing
- zaption
Featured Ed Tech Startup
Every quarter, Simba looks at several startups in depth, providing updates on new product launches and financing rounds completed. You can find these companies in the Simba report Ed Tech Startup Quaterly Dashboard. Every week Simba will focus on one of these tech companies carving out a niche in the education technology market.
Zaption
Tapping into the need for compelling video content is Zaption, a publishing platform founded in 2012 by father and son team Charlie and Jim Stigler. The publ...
- by fpierre@marketresearch.com
- March 29 2016
- adoption market
- adoptions
- instructional materials
- k-12
- scorecards
New! Simba Information’s 2015 National Instructional Materials Adoption Scorecard and 2016 Outlook
Simba Information’s 2015 National Instructional Materials Adoption Scorecard and 2016 Outlook report consolidates Simba’s ongoing research of the K-12 textbook adoption market in 2015 in one report.
This report provides background on the textbook adoption process, examines in detail the sales results of specific state adoptions Simba tracked in 2015 and previews the landscape and trends in instructional materials adoptions in 2016 and beyond.
The 2015 edition can stand alone as the most comp...
- by fpierre@marketresearch.com
- March 18 2016
- global
- law
- law journals
- lawyer
- legal
- legal publications
- legal publishers
- publishing
It’s a law publishing blog about publishing law blogs
The recent release of Simba Information’s report Global Legal Publishing 2016-2020 presents a very unique opportunity, one that I cannot let pass-the chance to publish a blog about law publishing and blogs.
I know, take a breath, gather yourselves because we are about to boldly go where only Seinfeld’s Cosmo Kramer-he of the coffee table book about coffee tables-would go.
The legal publishing industry is facing some of the same changes the science, technical and medical (STM) publishing face...
- by fpierre@marketresearch.com
- March 8 2016
- teachers
- survey
- teaching
- adjusted
- math
- science
- digital devices
New Teacher Report Available
Simba Information’s New Teachers, Getting Adjusted: 2015-2016 covers the experiences of K-12 teachers with regard to the use of technology in the classroom and the amount of training received in the areas of classroom management and lesson planning, among other topics. Trends that are shaping the teaching profession are also examined.
For the purpose of this report, Simba partnered with MCH Strategic Data to poll teachers across the nation. A relatively short survey consisting of 27 multiple c...
- by fpierre@marketresearch.com
- March 8 2016
- education
- k12 math
- teachers
- STEM
- survey
- instructional materials
- math educators
New Math Report
Schools have debated the best ways to instruct students in mathematics for decades. With the move to more rigorous standards and the growing acceptance of digital programs, Simba Information initiated research on the use of mathematics instructional materials during the 2015-2016 school year.
K-12 Mathematics Market Report 2016 looks at current trends in the elementary and secondary school mathematics market including what products are used most widely and the selection criteria educators use ...
- by fpierre@marketresearch.com
- January 14 2016
- education
- Every Student Succeeds Act
- k-12
- newsletters
- public school
Every Student Succeeds Act
When President Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act, it was only the first in a rapid progression of events that could herald changes in 2016 facing the U.S. public schools and the $8.56 billion instructional materials industry that serves the school market. The president was also expected to sign the federal education spending bill that would increase funds for educational programs, the Education Department released the latest edition of its National Educational Techn...
- by fpierre@marketresearch.com
- December 14 2015
- CCSS
- department of education
- education
- ESSA
- NCLB
- prek-12
Back to the Future: ESSA Becomes Law
President Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act, reauthorizing the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act and marking the first revision of ESEA since 2002 when the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law.
The new law returns more control to the states and local school boards for setting educational policy, identifying and determining corrective actions for struggling schools, and measurement metrics for evaluating teachers.
This shift in power—and ...
- by fpierre@marketresearch.com
- December 11 2015
- Advanced Placement courses
- education market
- enrollment
- k-12
- K-12 products
Simba Information’s K-12 Enrollment by Subject, School Year 2015-2016
Many factors influence whether or not a product introduced into the education market will be a success. In the most basic terms, the largest potential market for a product is the number of teachers and students who are potential users.
In K-12 Enrollment by Subject, School Year 2015-2016, Simba Information provides estimates on the number of K-12 students enrolled in courses in various subject areas. To generate the data, Simba drew on third-party sources and utilized an estimating method deve...
- by fpierre@marketresearch.com
- November 19 2015
- american education week
- edtech
- education
- prek-12
- educational technology
American Education Week
During American Education Week, your students deserve the best let Simba help you navigate the educational technology segment with the Ed Tech Startup Dashboard reports that will help you make the grade when it comes to technology in the classroom.
The third quarter edition of Ed Tech Startup Quarterly Dashboard examines the education technology startup market. Despite education budgets around the U.S. feeling the pinch, the education sector continues to increase its investment in technology r...
