After growing concerns over companies that manage and store student data, a U.S. Senator is asking the Department of Education about how it scrutinizes data-centric third-party vendors.
In its first acquisition since splitting off from what is now McGraw-Hill Financial, McGraw-Hill Education has purchased learning and assessment software company ALEKS.
Kaplan’s TechStars-powered startup accelerator — the latest to launch for education entrepreneurs — is announcing the startups in its inaugural class.
Mozilla’s ScienceLab wants the open web to transform science as much as it’s transformed the other areas of our lives.
According to venture capital database, CB Insights, education technology companies raised a total of $1.1 billion in 2012, with about one-third of the funding going to about ten companies.
After an $8 million Series A round in July, Toronto-based education startup Top Hat Monocle said it has accepted $1.1 million in funding from Felicis Ventures.
According to GE’s annual Innovation Barometer, business leaders around the world ranked improving education and encouraging a more entrepreneurial school environment as priorities in encouraging innovation.
As new online learning startups have attracted media attention and investor dollars, lynda.com, a veteran of the industry has remained relatively quiet. But on Tuesday the company said it raised $103 million in its first venture round since launching in 1995.
StudyBlue, a Madison, Wisc.-based education technology startup, on Friday announced that it has raised $9 million in funding from Great Oaks Venture Capital, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and other investors.
Social learning startup Grockit on Tuesday announced a $20-million-dollar round of financing led by Discovery Communications. The company launched in 2007 to help students with text prep but with the May release of Learnist expanded to a wider audience of lifelong learners.
