The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. As more schools went online and demand for education software grew, more companies began designing and commissioning their own studies about their products.

Company 145

Company Pearson E-rate Software 145

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. Dear Colleague Letter: Resource Comparability , which emphases technology-related equity issues (October 2014). FY 2010 $100,000,000.

Policies 150

Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Most districts cannot afford the resources to mount a solid defense against an increasingly sophisticated and constantly changing adversary. Providing hosted services rather than giving districts the software to install on their own servers is better for edtech companies; it makes their products easier and cheaper to deploy and maintain.

EdTech 60

EdTech E-rate Symantec Data 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Launches Rated JPG reports that beloved toy-maker LEGO is building its own social network. The Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons have launched a new website, LMRI.net to provide information about the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. That class is produced by language learning software maker Rosetta Stone.

Knewton 43

Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). They recorded school resource officers. And “free” doesn’t last.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Marc Andreessen famously said that “software is eating the world,” but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons are eating the world. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40