HMH is buying NWEA: The giants keep getting giant-er
There is further consolidation in the EdTech industry as a publishing giant, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is buying the Oregon-based assessment...
Education’s Financial Hangover after the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic changed education very quickly. K-12 schools and Universities started doing classes over zoom, the online tutoring industry...
Highly rejective colleges and the problem with SAT: An interview with Akil Bello
Akil Bello has spent most of his adult life involved in testing students. He started as a tutor at The...
“Zoom seemed to bring more students into the conversation” and other pandemic insights from Stanford
Stanford just released a comprehensive educational report on the pandemic focusing on the “emergency remote teaching phase” which they identify...
Big Data and student performance: Insights from an LMS
In our recent story about Google buying BrightBytes, there was a lot of discussion about what kind of data is...
Google is taking a silent step into the ed data space by buying BrightBytes
Google has confirmed to EdSurge that it bought educational data company BrightBytes for an undisclosed amount sometime around mid-May 2022. ...
EdTech meets computer Science: An interview with Mike Roberts
Something that Justin Reich talked about a lot in Failure to Disrupt is the idea that technology alone can’t disrupt...
5 Alternatives to standardized testing
When my younger son was in school, he absolutely hated the yearly California standardized testing. He figured out that he...
How can we change teaching so that teachers stay?
Willie Carver, Kentucky’s 2022 teacher of the year, is fed up and is leaving teaching. Two months ago Carver testified...
The ACT Is Worried About Grade Inflation Because Of Course It Is
The ACT released a report detailing pervasive grade inflation, citing a 0.19 increase in GPA from 2010 to 2019, while...