Ed-Tech Vendors Often in Dark on District Needs, Study Shows - Education Week

Many districts use needs assessments and pilot tests to set ed-tech priorities, but those efforts tend to produce little useful information for companies, the report says.



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Dissecting Districts' Ed-Tech Buying - Education Week

A newly released study probes the frustrations that digital developers and K-12 officials have with various aspects of district procurement.



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Playing High-Action Video Games May Speed Up Learning, Studies Say - Education Week

New research suggests that playing games like Halo and Call of Duty may help students react faster—but not necessarily more impulsively.



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Digital Access - Education Week

Enrollment in state-run online schools is on the rise, though broad gaps remain in the availability of digital resources and tools across the country's large, midsized, and small school systems, a new report concludes.



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District Technology Chief in Los Angeles Resigns - Education Week

Following the botched rollout of an ambitious plan to provide iPads to students and an ongoing software fiasco that has undermined class scheduling and the ability to verify the accuracy of students' transcripts, the chief information officer of the 651,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District has stepped down.



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Chromebooks Gain in K-12 Market, Challenging iPads - Education Week

While Apple's iPads remain dominant in the K-12 tablet market, Chromebook laptops have made gains in school districts, research indicates.



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More Black Students Expelled Over Social-Media Use in Ala. - Education Week

The Huntsville, Ala., district expelled 14 students last year based on the findings of a private contractor who monitored students' social-media activity as part of greater school security efforts, according to a review by The Huntsville Times. Twelve of them were black, drawing concerns that the program unfairly targeted African-American students.



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