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Project Unicorn signs first companies to help schools handle the hairball of edtech data

The rise of education technology in schools has also expanded one of edtech’s biggest hairballs: exchanging school, teacher and student… Read More

For investors, the future of education technology is now the workplace

SAN DIEGO — After several years of waiting for the K-12 market to grow faster, and a couple of years… Read More

Analysis: After Amazon’s TenMarks shuts down, what then for K-12 schools and Amazon?

The sudden, relatively quiet notice late last week that Amazon would shutter its TenMarks business and end its TenMarks Math… Read More

Apple unveils $299 iPad for schools and free education apps in bid to regain its K-12 lead

It’s on, Google. You too, Microsoft. That might be the best way to sum up Apple’s big reveal of how… Read More

Can Apple return to the head of the class? Tech giant to reveal new education plans after long slide

One-time education technology leader Apple is now a distant third in new computing device shipments to K-12 schools in the… Read More

Reality check: Microsoft Windows gains in U.S. schools in 2017, but Google remains dominant

The latest numbers from market research firm Futuresource are slightly better news for Microsoft in a U.S. K-12 education market… Read More

Varsity Tutors raises another $50M to expand globally, accelerate growth in Seattle

Varsity Tutors, an education technology startup that combines live experts with an online and mobile platform for learners, today announced… Read More

What makes Pittsburgh different as an edtech hub? Collaboration — and Mister Rogers

Ask those in Pittsburgh’s thriving education technology community what makes the city different from other edtech hubs such as Silicon… Read More

Minecraft gets free chemistry update, schools get HoloLens discounts as Microsoft ups edtech game

Microsoft is upping its STEM game by introducing new chemistry and computer science options for Minecraft: Education Edition. Plus, the… Read More

Microsoft apps to be embedded into edtech powerhouse PowerSchool’s ‘Unified Classroom’

Microsoft is making yet another push into the classroom. But this time, it’s using the buddy system, today announcing a… Read More

Global education technology investment hits record $9.5B, but K-20 is only 21% of the total

Seattle-area market research firm Metaari has released its annual tally of global edtech investment, and the numbers are eye-popping. Across… Read More

Analysis: Education technology startup funding rebounds, but what is ‘edtech’?

Education technology is heating up again. Yet edtech’s most fervent promoters may be masking the industry’s breadth by lumping everything… Read More

Google Chrome OS maintains dominance in US schools, but Microsoft Windows gains ground globally

New market research finds that while Google Chromebooks continue to be the mobile computing device of choice in U.S. schools,… Read More

Apparent Google update glitch disconnects student Chromebooks in schools across the U.S.

It wasn’t a good day to be a leading-edge school district in education technology. Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, of… Read More

Working Geek: ‘Cirkled in’ founder Reetu Gupta aims to streamline college admissions

Three years ago, Reetu Gupta found herself asking the agonizing question that plagues thousands of parents of high school students:… Read More

Bloomz raises $2.3M for a social network that helps educators communicate with parents

From social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn to more-focused apps like Remind and SignupGenius, educators have access to a bevy of applications… Read More

How personalized learning can reshape education: Insights from a special Gates Foundation panel

Buy the textbook. Attend lectures. Take tests. Get graded on a curve. This is the way most people remember their college… Read More

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Education technology: Your cheat sheet to 10 fads, trends, and WTFs

It’s been a most-frenzied spring of conferences in the new hotbed of startup and investor tech opportunity, education technology. And… Read More

Amazon launches Whispercast 3.0 tool, emphasizes free services for schools

Amazon is intensifying its efforts to go after education market customers by releasing a significant upgrade to its Whispercast tool —… Read More

LearnBig pivots to professional development, raises $2.2M

Since its launch in 2013, e-learning startup LearnBig has undergone some significant changes. The Seattle-based startup, helmed by former Egghead… Read More

Startup Spotlight: CaseBooker helps law students with textbook exchange marketplace

While studying at Seattle University School of Law, Miguel Willis noticed inefficiencies in the way students bought and sold casebooks.… Read More

Edtech platform startup Enlearn reveals first deal with education publisher

Enlearn, a Seattle nonprofit developing a platform for adapting and personalizing digital educational materials, has revealed its first commercial partner. Enlearn’s education… Read More

Seattle nonprofit Enlearn tackles thorny task: Personalize school with technology

One of the knottiest problems in applying technology to education is the holy grail of “personalization:” How to adjust and… Read More

Happly raises $1.5M for kid-friendly Internet video, game and toy platform

Family-friendly media and technology startup Happly has raised $1.45 million, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.… Read More

Can you count to $2 billion? Education technology investment hits new record

Education technology is a weird little industry. But you may never fully appreciate exactly how weird until you start to… Read More

DreamBox Learning CEO: How tech will shape the future of schools

Jessie Woolley-Wilson has big ideas about education technology. I sat down with the CEO of DreamBox Learning — an adaptive math… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Zombie-Based Learning uses zombie comics to help students learn more effectively

As a middle and high school student, David Hunter wasn’t fond of the “stand and deliver” method of teaching. After… Read More

Analysis: The exploding demand for computer science education, and why America needs to keep up

The chart above tells quite a story. That blue line — the one that looks like a hockey stick — shows how interest in… Read More

Coding exposure: 900 students develop their first programs at App Day

Inside the gymnasium on Friday at Rainier Beach High School was a scene best described as organized chaos. While DJ Midnight Mike… Read More

Startup Spotlight: CollegeMapper helps high school students get into college

Growing up with a family that had no college graduates and inside a house that was without plumbing for 12 years,… Read More