Marketplace K-12
MAY 16, 2016
Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Those in the puppy camp argued, with good reason, that free curricula and OER content were hardly free once the related costs and risks were factored in. So the discovery, vetting, and alignment costs inflicted upon the teachers and districts that would try to embrace free and OER content would remain high.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 2, 2016
For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S. Forty-two states and Washington, D.C.
Edsurge
AUGUST 24, 2017
Open-licensed learning materials have generally been slower to carve out a spot in the K-12 market they have in higher education, where companies like Lumen Learning have found target demographics. Authored by nonprofit Illustrative Mathematics, the curriculum covers Common Core standards for grades 6-8 math. Larry Singer.
Edsurge
JUNE 26, 2017
backlash , in the words of Education Week’s Benjamin Herold, “echoes previous battles among various teachers’ union factions over highly politicized issues such as the Common Core State Standards and standardized testing.”. These analogies are fraught with risk because big technology companies haven’t earned unconditional public trust.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.
Hack Education
MAY 27, 2016
On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss.
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