After years of chasing growth through mergers and acquisitions, the education-technology behemoth Anthology Inc. has more than $1 billion in debt and declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week. The ...

When evaluating which ed tech tools to adopt, evidence of impact is one of the most important factors to consider. At the highest level, ed tech should be chosen based on its ability to improve ...

In January, the U.S. Department of Education released the nation’s signature educational technology policy document — “2024 National Educational Technology Plan: A Call to Action for Closing the ...

Educational technology in schools is sometimes described as a wicked problem — a term coined by a design and planning professor, Horst Rittel, in the 1960s, meaning a problem for which even defining ...

Technological tools, ranging from text-to-speech apps to audio-enhancing receivers, are being used more and more by schools to make content readily available to students with hearing and vision loss.

NEW YORK CITY — At least two superintendents who spoke at the EdTech Week conference in New York City this week had a message for ed-tech vendors about soliciting their software and services: Try to ...

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The number of ed-tech products school districts use in a single school year has surged over the past five years. With an influx of federal funding as part of pandemic relief aid, schools purchased ...

The ed-tech software company Illuminate Education will pay the states of New York, California and Connecticut a $5.1 million collective settlement after it failed to safeguard a large swath of student ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s office of educational technology has been eliminated as part of the federal agency’s massive reduction in force, according to sources familiar with the layoffs and ...

The platforms I once promoted could show you a dashboard of open rates and response times. What they couldn’t show you was whether a student felt heard—or safe enough to speak. I used to celebrate ...