myON adds National Geographic Kids to digital platform
Trigg County Public Schools Deploys ZeroEyes’ AI Gun Detection and Intelligent Situational Awareness Technology
Kentucky School District Integrates Leading Proactive Solution to Mitigate Gun-Related Violence
Kurzweil improves learning for blind, visually impaired users
Kurzweil Education, Inc., a division of Cambium Learning Group, Inc., announced Kurzweil 1000 Version 14, the latest version of its award-winning text-to-speech software that makes printed or electronic…
Extron introduces wireless collaboration tool
Extron Electronics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the ShareLink 200 Wireless Collaboration Gateway, which enables anyone to present content from a personal device. Supported devices…
New bill would renew EETT funding
A new bill proposed in the U.S. Senate would once again fund the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) Act, which ensures that educators and students have access to…
Can self-provisioning your internet save you money?
In Evan Marwell’s estimation, anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the nation’s K-12 school districts have self-provisioned their own fiber networks. In most cases, this CEO of…
Mobile broadband solution could ease access concerns
Student access to the internet outside of school is a growing concern among district technology leaders, and with one-third of U.S. public school students lacking broadband at home,…
Key factors to consider in mobile device rollouts
Many schools begin implementing mobile devices by opting to try a pilot of devices, and increasingly, they are also piloting charging carts or charging stations as well. Pilots…
The 9 essentials of crowdfunding for the classroom
As funding for public education continues to decline, districts, administrators, and classroom teachers struggle to find ways to fill gaps left by budget cuts. Traditional school fundraising methods,…
FCC’s plan to reclassify internet has big K-12 impact
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is proposing clear, sustainable, enforceable rules to preserve and protect the open Internet as a place for innovation and free expression. According to an…
TabPilot’s Tablet Manager for iOS is free through end of school year
TabPilot Learning Systems has announced that its Tablet Manager for iOS will now be free for all public and private K-12 schools with 25 or more iPads through…
Adobe seeks youth media projects about social change
The Adobe Foundation announced its call for entries for the fourth-annual international Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) Awards. The AYV Awards recognizes insightful digital media projects created by youth…
9 free apps for Common Core scaffolding
As schools everywhere shift to the Common Core, teachers are now realizing that they must now be able to determine the both the factors within a given text…
6 small grants for teachers that could make a big difference
This month’s grants focus on mostly smaller sums ideal for individual classroom teachers or projects. Check out these funding opportunities for teachers, students, parents, and administrators–there’s likely to…
Feds plan to bring new STEM partnerships to students
New federal interagency partnerships will bring hands-on STEM learning opportunities to high-need students during after-school and out-of-school time. Through this collaboration, the Department of Education's 21st Century Community…
OKI Data America debuts new printers
During the Texas Computer Education Association's annual conference in Austin, Texas, OKI Data Americas will demonstrate its end-to-end printing solutions and services for the education market, including digital…
Journey to the student-centered makerspace
Whether you know it or not, your students are already making things outside of school. From digital animation and programming to video production and duct tape crafts, it’s…
3rd Quote solves K-12 ed-tech procurement issues
3rd Quote, an online community and marketplace that facilitates ed-tech product discovery, research, evaluation, and purchasing into a single, secure platform, announces two major features designed to further…
Acer launches two new Chromebooks for education
Acer expanded its line of Chromebooks for the education market with two new models, the Acer Chromebook C910 and Acer Chromebook C740, both introduced at BETT 2015 in…
5 overlooked money-saving ideas for ed tech
As the chief management analyst for the Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) in Bakersfield, Calif., Michelle Plumbtree has gotten up close and personal with a number…
Santa Fe Public Schools opts for fiber network
Santa Fe Public Schools (SFPS) has partnered with Tellabs, a provider of passive optical network (PON) solutions, to deploy the company's fiber-based Optical LAN network solution in seven…
Neverware launches cloud-based operating system
Chromebooks are one of the hottest trends in ed tech, but with ever-tightening district budgets, schools are struggling to balance new expenditures with previous PC investments that reportedly…
ESEA would see $2.7B increase under FY 2016 budget
President Obama's FY 2016 budget request includes four focus areas for education, including increasing equity and opportunity for all students; expanding high-quality early learning programs; supporting teachers and…
Observation tool measures 7 ‘learner-centric’ factors
Bolstering student engagement is a crucial strategy to increase student success, but school leaders and classroom teachers typically lack tools that determine the extent to which their classrooms…
LearnSprout announces Early Warning Solution
LearnSprout, an education data analytics company, has launched the LearnSprout Early Warning Solution (EWS), a comprehensive data analysis service to help schools identify at-risk students early enough to…
Study: Tech access in, outside classroom boosts engagement
Students are more engaged in their learning and tend to show more achievement in certain areas when they have access to technology during school and at home, according…
Idaho district implements online speech therapy
School districts spanning large areas, like 10,000-plus student Bonneville Joint School District 93 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, often struggle to hire and retain enough fully qualified speech-language pathologists…
8 great ways to jumpstart your Google+/Twitter PLN
Twitter and Google+ may not have been designed for educators, but every day thousands of teachers, school leaders, and learners of all sizes take to social media to…
Texas approves Discovery Education Social Studies Techbook for statewide use
Following a rigorous evaluation, the Texas State Board of Education has approved the Discovery Education Social Studies Techbook for statewide use as a core instructional resource through its…
Austin ISD offers free test prep to high school students
Austin ISD (AISD) is partnering with Edgenuity, an online education provider, to expand support for all high school students by offering free test preparation services for college entrance…
Infobase relaunches Issues & Controversies
Infobase, a provider of educational content to schools and libraries, has announced the relaunch of Issues & Controversies. The database, which aims to offer balanced treatment of complex,…
InfoSnap honored as inaugural Pearson award winner
InfoSnap, a provider of cloud-based registration management solutions, is the winner of Pearson’s inaugural Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Integration Excellence Award. Chosen from the more than 100 technology…
These amazing kits make electronics simple and fun for every student
Very young students often have a hard time engaging meaningfully in electronics projects. Sure, most middle school kids can learn the function of basic electronic components and follow…
Pearson unveils tablet ELL assessment system
A new tablet-based assessment developed by Pearson will specifically target English Language Learners (ELLs) in order to help them build English language skills and succeed on summative assessments.…
Hillsborough County Schools reveals 99.98% uptime with LMS
