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KSDE and Illuminate Education Partner to Expand Statewide MTSS Initiative

Multi-year agreement makes FastBridge universal screening and progress monitoring tools available to all Kansas districts at half cost, advancing the state’s effort to support all students

Education.com Debuts Middle School Math and English Language Arts Resources

Hundreds of new worksheets, games and lesson plans help 6-8th grade students master essential skills

McGraw Hill to acquire EdTech Pioneer Achieve3000

     Acquisition Complements McGraw Hill’s Core PreK-12 Offerings and Accelerates the Company’s Digital Transformation McGraw Hill announced today that it has entered into a definitive ...

Big Picture Learning and American Student Assistance Partner to Provide Internship Opportunities

  Big Picture Learning (BPL) is partnering with American Student Assistance® (ASA), a national nonprofit that helps to foster students' understanding of postsecondary education and career path...

Swing Education Launches Bonus Plan to Support and Incentivize Substitute Teachers

Substitutes can receive a bonus up to $1,000 during the 2021-2022 school year

GG4L Announces School Passport® 2.0

School Passport is a Safe School iPaaS with PII Shield and School AppStore

Alma Announces System Upgrades to its Student Information System

Alma offers a Spanish version of its parent and student portals and adds new features to make it easier for districts to onboard schools and use third party apps

Gale Helps Manassas City Public Schools Provide Mental Health and Wellness Resources to Students

District Expands Social Emotional Learning Program with New Digital Resources to Support Student Well-Being

After Successful Pilot, Schools Adopt EarlyBird Game-Based Screener to Identify Children at Risk for Dyslexia and Reading Difficulties

After participating in a pilot trial of the new EarlyBird game-based early literacy assessment, schools and districts across the United States have chosen to adopt EarlyBird for the 2021-22 scho...

Minnesota’s Bloomington Public Schools Set to Open School Year with New Digital Resources Supporting Science Education from Discovery Education

Minnesota’s Bloomington Public Schools  (BPS) today announced a new collaboration with  Discovery Education  supporting science education in elementary and middle school classrooms across the d...

With American Rescue Plan Funding, New First Book Study Reveals That 97 Percent of Educators Want Input on Funding Allocation, 75 Percent Have Not Had the Opportunity

Report Discloses Educators' Out-of-Pocket Spending in 2020 and their Priorities for American Rescue Plan Funding

Leading Researcher Partnered with CoderZ to Write a White Paper on Fostering and Assessing Students Creativity and Collaboration Skills

  Dr. Yigal Rosen (Harvard University),  co-authored CoderZ’s new white paper, which puts forth comprehensive framework for fostering and assessing creativity and collaboration through CoderZ ...

The University of Saint Francis and BloomBoard Announce New Partnership to Address Pandemic Recovery while Offering Teachers Graduate-level Credit via Micro-Credentials

Micro-credential-based graduate courses from the University of St. Francis and BloomBoard allow local schools to leverage federal relief funds to build teacher skills for COVID recovery

National Report Reveals Students Are Behind in Reading and Math

How Kids Are Performing report shows that achievement gaps widened between fall and spring—and offers vital resources to help accelerate learning

Business Icon John Pepper and Browns GM Andrew Berry Join Alliance for Decision Education Board

Each seeks to amplify call for decision-making skills to be taught in schools

Georgia’s Toombs County Schools Launches New Partnership Bringing Award-Winning Digital Resource from Discovery Education to All Students

  Georgia’s  Toombs County Schools  (TCS) today launched a new partnership with  Discovery Education  providing district teachers and students in all grades K-12 access to an award-winning dig...

Mississippi Department of Education Approves Curriculum Associates’ Programs as Evidence-Based Academic Interventions

The i-Ready®, Ready®, Phonics for Reading™, and Teacher Toolbox programs can be used by schools across the state to support the academic needs of Tier II and Tier III students

EdisonLearning and the Learning Counsel to Prepare School Leaders for the Re-imagination of Digital Learning in the Wake of Covid-19

               The 2021 EduJedi Seminars for K-12 will Equip School Administrators with Technology Skills & Knowledge to Address Challenges Facing American Education   FORT LAUD...

Rosetta Stone/Uber partner to provide language learning services

     Rosetta Stone  is partnering with Uber so that every driver and delivery person in nearly every country around the world has the opportunity to learn a new language—for free. Rosetta’...

Study Shows Children Saw Improved Mental Well-Being Early on During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Conducted by nonprofit Let Grow and analyzed by Dr. Peter Gray, the study shows children benefitted from unstructured time during the initial lockdown last spring


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