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Accelerated: Inside Pixowl’s Decision to Focus on Parents Rather than Schools
A lot can change in two months. When we talked with Pixowl in late May, they had just finished their first test of their educational game Sandbox EDU in a Bay area classroom.Now,…
Ellevation Education adds $2 million in funding to help teachers working with English language learners
Boston-based Ellevation Education, which offers teachers tools to help plan, report, and track the instruction of English language learners, announced earlier this month that it has raised $2 million in funding…
Adding Things Up: Behind the Success of Motion Math’s Suite of Apps
Building a brand, especially in a Wild West world like the App Store, is no small feat. But there are a number of companies that have managed to rise to…
It’s Time: Connecting What Students Need & What Entrepreneurs Create
I recently participated on a Digital Promise panel about whether what economists call"pull mechanisms" can create more incentives for innovation in education technology. Pull mechanism refers to things like challenges, prizes, and advanced…
K-12 District Leaders Evolving Into Smarter Ed-Tech Consumers
School leaders debating whether to buy educational technology often find themselves weighing the promised benefits against their worst fears—soaring costs, disruptive breakdowns, and befuddled teachers and students—not knowing whether they're…