EdTech
- Pitfalls and Triumphs—What I Learned From My Year in Edtech – EdSurge
- Walter Duncan of Quick Key has some fascinating fixes for our edtech problems – TechCrunch
- Bridget Burns’ Call to Edtech Entrepreneurs: ‘Start With Empathy’ – EdSurge
- 2 EdTech Stocks to Watch – TheStreet.com
- Parent Advocacy Group Warns of Ed-Tech ‘Threats’ – Education Week (subscription) (blog)
K-12 Online Testing
- Greenville welcomes students to the new school year – Early Bird Newspaper (press release)
- State seeks AMP replacement – Kenai Peninsula Online
- Startup Receives Federal Grant to Expand Minecraft Student Reach – T.H.E. Journal
- 221 HELP WANTED – Valley Courier
- New Forum Lets Educators to Share Ideas about 3D Printing – T.H.E. Journal
Testing Glitches
- Explainer: Why Test Glitches Are a Much Bigger Problem Than You Think – The 74
- Education Officials Point Fingers over College Readiness – Texas Tribune
- Anki to Release Impressive Feature-Packed SDK for Cozmo Robot – IEEE Spectrum
- High Test Scores At A Nationally Lauded Charter Network, But At What Cost? – NPR
- Online Testing in Georgia Disrupted by Glitches – Education Week (subscription)
ETS Assessment
- Chinese Cheating And The SAT Scandal: The Global Tong War Over Test Scores – VDARE.com
- Danger for Turnbull as parliament heads into the unknown – The Guardian
- ETS to Replace Students with Avatars in Teacher Certification Exams – Huffington Post
- Texas Fines High-Stakes Testing Vendor $20.7M for Botched Services – Breitbart News
- Watch Russian warships in the Mediterranean Sea launch cruise missiles against targets in Aleppo – The Aviationist (blog)
Pearson Assessment
- Gilead: Forbes Is Salty Over The Vermont Initiative – Seeking Alpha
- Health in brief for August 29, 2016 – Charleston Post Courier
- Carbon bubble bursts on BC’s climate action plan – NOW Magazine
- Boxer Pushes EPA to Review Asbestos Under New Chemicals Law – Bloomberg BNA
- County students score higher in second year of state PARCC testing – Silver City Daily Press and Independent
Questar- DRC – AIR
- Dominion Resources (D) Thomas F. Farrell on Q2 2016 Results – Earnings Call Transcript – Seeking Alpha
- Pearson ‘Resolution 19’ gets its day – Politico
- Online Testing Now More Common Than Paper and Pencil, Study Finds – Education Week (subscription) (blog)
- Patnode joins Essentia Health – Brainerd Daily Dispatch
- Nevada Hires Data Recognition Corp. as New Test Vendor – Education Week (subscription) (blog)
K-12 Assessment Providers
- Tools for School – Language Magazine
- Post-Regulatory School Reform – Harvard Magazine
- Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments – eSchool News
- Global Learning Management System Market to Grow at an Impressive CAGR of 24% Through 2020, Reports Technavio – Business Wire (press release)
- The Education Technology Value Chain: Implications and Policy Options – T.H.E. Journal
Google Education
- Google For Education Gets New Updates In Time For School – University Herald
- ‘God is not Google’: BYU Education Week speaker talks about doubt – Deseret News
- Google Education Gets New Back-to-School Features – PC Magazine
- As Google Steals Its Education Thunder, What Can Microsoft Do? – Forbes
- Google Apps for Education update will let parents see students’ report cards – Digital Trends
Apple Education
- Pegatron is exploiting workers making Apple iPhone 7 in China – report – ZDNet
- How virtual and augmented reality could play a role in Apple’s future – AppleInsider (press release) (blog)
- The Israelis Behind History’s ‘Most Sophisticated Tracker Program’ That Wormed Into Apple – Haaretz
- Apple is right: Patriotism has nothing to with taxes—but it’s wrongly avoiding paying its fair share – Daily Kos
- An interview with Steve Wozniak: The Apple co-founder on disrupting education, creating the personal computer and … – StartupSmart
Khan Academy
- 10 best Mac programming resources for beginners – Macworld UK
- MTV Video Music Awards Are the Anti-Oscars, and That’s a Good Thing – New York Times
- BBC list of best 100 films gave a damn about Indian cinema – The Indian Express
- It takes a whole lot of people to ensure a language’s survival – Toledo Blade
- Data Sheet—Sunday, August 28, 2016 – Fortune
Renaissance Learning
- Pittsburgh Technology Council announces 2016 Tech 50 finalists – NEXTpittsburgh
- Rick Remender on the Legacy of Fear Agent, the Best Hardcore Sci-Fi Comic You Haven’t Read – Paste Magazine
- New Tongues – MTV.com
- Paralyzed Veterans of America Educates Hundreds of Spinal Cord Injury and Disease Health Care Professionals at 6th … – Yahoo Finance
- Pep Guardiola Making Good on His Promise as City Are Enjoying the Game Again – Bleacher Report
Apple Education
- Pegatron is exploiting workers making Apple iPhone 7 in China – report – ZDNet
- How virtual and augmented reality could play a role in Apple’s future – AppleInsider (press release) (blog)
- The Israelis Behind History’s ‘Most Sophisticated Tracker Program’ That Wormed Into Apple – Haaretz
- Apple is right: Patriotism has nothing to with taxes—but it’s wrongly avoiding paying its fair share – Daily Kos
- An interview with Steve Wozniak: The Apple co-founder on disrupting education, creating the personal computer and … – StartupSmart