Podcast Series: Innovations in Education

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New York spikes education software deal with Wireless Generation

Wireless Generation was to get $27 million of the state’s $700 million in federal Race to the Top money.

New York’s comptroller has spiked a $27 million contract with an education software firm owned by Rupert Murdoch because of the media mogul’s phone hacking scandal in Great Britain.

The New York Daily News reports that state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli last week rejected a state Education Department contract with Wireless Generation, a News Corp. affiliate.

Wireless Generation was to get $27 million of the state’s $700 million in federal Race to the Top money to develop software that would track students’ test scores.…Read More

Murdoch education affiliate’s $2.7 million consulting contract approved by NYC

The New York City Comptroller’s office has approved a $2.7 million consulting contract with Wireless Generation–an education technology company purchased by Rupert Murdoch last November–the Huffington Post has learned. Wireless Generation, a company that tracks student performance on tests, is an independent subsidiary of News Corporation, the parent company of the embattled News of the World and the Wall Street Journal…

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