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ABCmouse for Schools Announces Upgrades at ISTE 2017

New capabilities for teachers, administrators, and family engagement include Spanish activities and offline access

bulb Implements New Enterprise Features for ISTE 2017

Created exclusively for school, district, and classroom use, bulbSchool’s new features include LMS connectivity, auto-rostering, enhanced security, dashboards, and education pricing

AR Software Inspires Increase in Reading Proficiency

Alive Studios’ animal-themed augmented reality lessons help kindergarteners make leaps of learning in only 26 days

Bloomz and AZTEA Join Forces To Drive Parental Engagement Among ISTE Affiliates

The free, fast-growing app and the ISTE-affiliated organization will collaborate to improve school communication

Hero K12 Announces Equity Partner, $150M of Available Capital for Expanded EdTech Platform

Working to build an integrated platform to help educators create safe, connected, positive learning environments

Supporting the Rise of Chromebooks in K-12 education

Impero Software and CDI will deliver a best in class cross-platform monitoring and management solution for K-12 schools

LocknCharge Unveils Charging Case for Sphero Edu SPRK+ Robots

The lightweight charging case stores, secures and charges six SPRK+ robots to help foster coding skills

Free Access to Fuel Education’s Stride for Fifth Annual Alabama Summer Learning Challenge

Alabama students in grades K-12 have free anytime, anywhere access to the online supplemental learning tool from this summer to help prevent “Summer Slide”

Houston Independent School District and itslearning Take Bronze Medal in 2017 IMS Global Learning Consortium’s Learning Impact Awards

LMS platform gives HISD’s 283 schools access to library with millions of curated and standards-aligned resources; access to planning, assessment and reporting tools for greater efficiencies

Oculus Education Pilot Kicks Off in 90 California Libraries

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” —Ray Bradbury Books, like VR, open the door to new possibilities and let us experience worlds that would otherwise be beyond ...

Florida Department of Education Approves Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready® Diagnostic for Grades 3–12 as a Norm-Referenced Assessment for Private Schools

Florida Department of Education Approves Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready® Diagnostic for Grades 3–12 as a Norm-Referenced Assessment for Private Schools

Monroe School District Adds Advanced Technologies to Transform Classrooms

District embarking on initiative to drive powerful instruction, support access in equity and reinforce high expectations for greater collaborative learning

Summer Institutes for Science and STEM Educators

Being held nationwide, full-day institutes provide educators with hands-on training using data-collection technology

New Handbook of Best Practices for Deploying Internet Monitoring in Schools

Additional resources in handbook help schools deal with issues such as cyberbullying, radicalization and self-harm

IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces 2017 Award Winners

Top Honors for Leadership and Innovation Presented at Annual Event for the World’s Largest Educational Technology Collaboration

Connecting the Dots Between Learning Experiences & Learning Spaces

MeTEOR Education launches training and coaching services to increase retention, comprehension and learning outcomes for students

Building a Community of Readers new PLC

edWeb.net and myON today announced a combined effort to provide educators with robust professional learning opportunities to transform literacy for all pre-K–12 students. myON will sponsor t...

Study: Mississippi Professional Development Initiative Significantly Improves Quality of K–3 Teacher Instruction, Student Engagement

A statewide early literacy professional development initiative by the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is showing dramatic improvement in the quality of teacher instruction and student ...

Virtual High School Opens Registration for 2017-18 School Year

Educational experts advocate exposing students to a wide variety of topics to motivate learning and encourage exploration of potential career options. The Virtual High School (VHS Inc.), a non...

Ready® Mathematics for Grades K–5 Receives Near-Perfect Rating by EdReports.org

Ready Mathematics for grades K–5 is one of only three products in its category to meet all evaluation criteria during independent review


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