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Social Justice, Digital Citizenship, and Social-Emotional Learning Resources Among the New Content Just Added to Discovery Education Services

  Discovery Education today announces the addition of hundreds of new digital resources sourced from trusted content partners to its award-winning digital services.  The new content added to...

Illuminate Education’s eduCLIMBER Named Learning Analytics Solution of the Year

Illuminate’s MTSS management tool recognized in 2020 EdTech Breakthrough program

Follett Partners with Nonprofits to Promote Summer Reading

Seattle, Minneapolis Childhood Literacy Organizations Turn to Follett’s Online Book Fairs; Nearly 80,000 Print Books Distributed to Young Students

STS Education Helping Schools Reopen This Fall with New Device Decontamination Service

Local company’s use of medical grade decontamination services catching the attention of California schools, agencies and even a Fortune 100 computer maker

Healthy Player ONE Solves Two Largest Concerns for Scholastic Esports

Healthy Player ONE is the first company to introduce software to monitor and prevent harassment and injury during esports play

Virginia’s Prince William County Public Schools and Discovery Education Extend Partnership Providing Educators District Access to Award-Winning Digital Service

  Virginia’s Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) announced the extension of its partnership with Discovery Education, the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resour...

DimensionU Provides Free Esports Summer Leagues for All New Jersey Students

Department of Defense STEM Outreach Office Supports Free Gameplay for Learning, Protecting Third- through Ninth Graders in New Jersey from Widening Achievement Gap

OverDrive to Acquire RBdigital from RBmedia

Acquisition follows recent sale of OverDrive to KKR from Rakuten

3M Young Scientist Challenge Announces 2020 National Finalists

3M and Discovery Education congratulate finalists; announce 2020 shift to a virtual competition in response to COVID-19

RANDA Releases The Teacher Wallet API to Licensure Vendors

RANDA Solutions announced today the release of an API Integration for The Teacher Wallet solution. The API release is available to any existing teacher credentialing or licensure system in the United States.

Apex Learning Brings Critical Social and Emotional Learning and Mental Health Programming to Districts through Partnership with Evolution Labs

Partnership enables districts to support the health and wellbeing of students, addressing the needs of the whole child

Stanley Black & Decker and Discovery Education Announce 2020 Making for Good Challenge Winners

  Innovative STEAM Solutions to Societal & Environmental Issues Earns Students One-of-a-Kind Virtual Mentorship Opportunity and $30,000 in Prizing Stanley Black & Decker and Di...

Apperson Offers Early Bird Pricing for its Online Character Education Program – The Character Tree

     Discounted 2020/21 subscriptions allow teachers to provide students with character skills, whether they are in classrooms or teaching remotely  After a successful launch in 2019...

VHS Learning Opens Fall 2020 Registration

In the 2021 academic year, nonprofit VHS Learning celebrates its 25 th year as a supplemental online high school program – the first nationwide online program in the United States. Enrollment f...

Texas' Ector County Independent School District Selects Discovery Education Experience to Support Student Learning Over the Summer and Beyond

  Texas' Ector County Independent School District (ECISD) announced the selection of Discovery Education Experience to support both its current Virtual Summer School program and K-12 tea...

PBLWorks Creates New eBook Featuring 21 Projects to Help Families Keep Children Engaged in Learning this Summer

“This Teachable Moment” eBook provides an introduction to Project Based Learning and ready-to-go projects for children of all grade levels

Swing Education Names its 2020 Inductees into the Substitute Teacher Hall of Fame

Three exemplary educators were chosen based on their contributions to the classroom and greater school community

Illustrative Mathematics Appoints Kristin Umland as President

Two additional leadership team changes announced for key product strategy and program management roles

Secretary DeVos Approves 10 Additional Perkins Career and Technical Education Plans

  U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced the Department of Education has approved 10 additional career and technical education (CTE) plans. Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Missou...


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