The release plans to support an interactive mobile application, Blackboard Collaborate Mobile, scheduled to be available later this summer.
The release plans to support an interactive mobile application, Blackboard Collaborate Mobile, scheduled to be available later this summer.
Heartland Payment Systems has acquired LunchByte Systems, Inc., a school foodservice back office management and point-of-sale company led by its NUTRIKIDS solution.
TabPilot is a cloud-based Android management system that allows teachers to control which apps are available on Android devices used in their classrooms.
The EdIslands Portal is a new site offering schools single sign-on access to Archipelago Learning’s full suite of subscription-based, software-as-a-service products.
A broad new coalition, led by ASCD and joined by more than two dozen national education organizations, has been formed to better advocate for school programs beyond reading, math, and science.
AMX announced two new accessories, the Modero X Series Multi Preview (MXA-MP) and the Modero X Series Multi Preview Live (MXA-MPL).
Leading Edge Certification announced the launch of its Administrator Certification, a national educational technology certification program available for school administrators.
Safari Books Online announced it has partnered with Clarity Business Education to provide Safari Books Online subscribers a new innovative way to make learning time more efficient.
While coed classrooms are often seen as the norm in traditional American schools today, that may change in the not-too-distant future.
After a six-month battle to purge teachers and administrators at 24 low-performing schools, the Bloomberg administration retreated Wednesday and said the schools should plan for the return of the same employees in the fall.
When Anne Arundel school officials this year were outlining redistricting plans for parents of students at Mayo, Central and Davidsonville elementary schools, they insisted that the quality of education for students would not change regardless of which school they attended.
The number of highly rated Florida schools dropped sharply this year, a development that state officials foresaw and warned parents about a week ago in an effort to brace them for the news.
By the time summer's over, many families can't wait for school to start. Working parents have struggled to find camps or babysitting, kids are bored and teachers fret over "summer slide" – the academic losses that research shows hits kids from poor families hardest.
Los Angeles school officials are fighting a court order, which took effect Wednesday, that would set aside more classroom seats for charter schools — even if that means traditional schools will lose space for parent centers, computer labs, academic intervention and other services.
In the first case of its kind, the American Civil Liberties Union is charging that the state of Michigan and a Detroit area school district have failed to adequately educate children, violating their "right to learn to read" under an obscure state law.