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Achieve3000 and iCivics Announce a New Partnership to Bring Differentiated Civics Education to K-12

Achieve3000 will integrate iCivics resources into its literacy platform and differentiate them by reading level Lakewood, NJ, May 9, 2018 – Achieve3000, the leader in differentiated instruct...

Activate Learning® Offers Revised Edition of Engineering the Future® Curriculum That Meets New Science Standards

v Leader in STEM curriculum releases Second edition of Engineering the Future offering all students an opportunity to learn engineering design skills called for by the NGSS   Greenwich...

Texas School Adopts Milo and robots4autism Curriculum for Students with Autism

      Congressman and special needs advocate, Pete Sessions, visits Tom C. Gooch Elementary to see students interact with Milo, the facially expressive humanoid robot   (Dall...

Boxlight and Globisens Release New Version of GlobiLab Analytical Software for the Labdisc

  Lawrenceville, GA – March 29, 2018 – Boxlight Corporation (Nasdaq: BOXL) (“Boxlight”), and K-12 science technology pioneer Globisens have released a new version of the GlobiLab analyti...

Speck Launches Protective Chromebook and iPad Cases for Education Market

Austin, Texas, February 5, 2018 -- Today at TCEA, Speck launched two protective solutions for schools and educational institutions, Presidio SHOW for Chromebooks and Balance FOLIO CLEAR for iPad...

Steelcase Education Announces 4th Annual Active Learning Center Grant Recipients

Special needs students, Hispanic women engineering students among those benefiting from active learning classrooms GRAND RAPIDS, MI, March 26, 2018— Sixteen educational institutions includ...

Incident IQ Announces New Google Admin Console Integration

ATLANTA (March 6, 2018) —  http://incidentiq.com/ , a leading provider of K-12 technology help desk solutions, announces the release of a new feature for the company’s Incident IQ Technology Sup...

Consistent Use of Lexia Reading Core5 Leads to Surge in Charter Schools USA Elementary Students Literacy Gains

  Reading performance levels in Core5 showed strong correlation to NWEA MAP scores and led to increased use across CSUSA’s network of schools   BOSTON (March 12, 2018) – An analysis of m...

Chesterfield County School District Purchases District-wide License for Soundtrap Online Recording Studio to Encourage Student Creativity

Recent Deal Part of Global Trend Among School Districts to Enrich Core Curriculum and More Deeply Engage Students                  Stockholm, Sweden and Chesterfield, Virg. – February 28,...

Learning Counsel Offers New ‘EduJedi Leadership’ for Executive Professional Development

  Sphero is a contributing founding sponsor of the program, which will empower educational leaders to understand, plan, and execute digital transformations in their schools   (SACRAME...

Project Pals Launches Visual Collaboration Platform for Project-Based Learning

The platform enables students to build the critical-thinking and collaboration skills they need for the 21st century   (CHATSWORTH, CA) February 28, 2018 — Project Pals, Inc. today ann...

SOS Brooklyn Launches New EdTech Division, Backpack Interactive

The award-winning creative agency focuses on the learner experience to increase engagement and achievement for today’s tech-savvy students and teachers    (BROOKLYN, NY) February 14, 201...

The Virtual High School Opens Registration for Summer School 2018

Boston – Feb. 26, 2018 – The Virtual High School (VHS Inc.), a non-profit organization empowering schools with the industry’s most extensive variety of online and blended learning programs, ...

Fuel Education Expands Reading Literacy Platform for Schools and Districts

Big Universe adds 2,000 eBooks to help schools improve reading proficiency, particularly in early grades Herndon, Virginia, February 26, 2018 — The online literacy platform from Fuel Educ...

PAPERbasket Providing Patent-Pending New Approach to K-12 Edtech Metering Adoption

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 21 February 2018 A New patent-pending solution collects data at the device level, capable of distinguishing active vs. inactive use AUSTIN, TEXAS – With K-12 schools ...

Lexia Learning Releases New White Paper for Educators

Supporting Non-Proficient Adolescent Readers: Identifying and Addressing Why They Struggle

ASSIST Integrated K-12 Education Management System Announces Integration with Scantron® Online Diagnostic Student Assessment

Education assessment leader Scantron joins the fully integrated instructional content of ASSIST’s cloud-based program RENO, NV, Feb. 13, 2018 —ASSIST Education announced the recent inte...

Lexia Debuts New PowerUp Literacy Program, Enhancing Core English Language Arts Instruction for Non-Proficient Readers in Grades Six and Above

  PowerUp rounds out Lexia’s pre-K–12 literacy offerings, giving district administrators a trusted partner for their literacy instruction and assessment needs across all grade levels  ...

Vernier Software & Technology Adds 15 New Wireless Sensors to Its Popular Go Direct® Sensor Family

Students and educators can use the 15 new sensors with the free Graphical Analysis™ 4 app and more than 300 teacher-tested STEM experiments


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