getAbstract is now offering free access to its online library to students over the age of 16. Students will have access to a growing database of 18,000 abstracts covering topics such as career planning, economics, business, management, science, technology and politics.
Changes in the Advanced Placement world could help more high school students earn college credit via AP exams—but teenagers will pay new fees if they change their minds about taking the tests. The College Board will soon offer AP teachers new practice questions, instructional videos and automated assessments that can give students feedback online.
Amino Labs has partnered with MindFuel to expand its Canadian and U.S. presence in K12 education. The Amino Labs Educators Starter Kit, which is a synthetic biology starter kit for teachers, will be combined with MindFuel's Wonderville.org service platform to provide curricula-aligned lessons in synthetic biology.
Citing the importance of eliminating the "incumbency advantage" and the need to generate fresh ideas, members of the Florida House PreK-12 Quality subcommittee backed a resolution to ask voters to approve term limits for school board members.
Age of Learning's ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy, a digital learning resource for children, and ReadingIQ, a digital library with thousands of titles for kids 12 and under, now include Lexile measures from MetaMetrics for their digital books.
Advance teacher evaluation, student-centered learning, SEL and districtwide growth are some of the session topics for teacher leaders, principals and superintendents at the Building Expertise Educators Conference in Orlando, Fla., on June 12-14. The event features neuroscientist Dr. David Sousa.
EMS LINQ INC's new Education Resource Management integrates school district technologies into one system with single-sign-on access to unify school districts' school accounting, e-commerce, nutrition management, school website development, real-time notifications, student registration and data analytics .
The MindFuel STEM Store is an online catalog of blended-learning resources, including lesson plans and project-based activities, experiments and design challenges, and entrepreneurial and innovation skills development course material. It covers topics such as body systems, chemistry, earth sciences, energy, ecosystems and more.
BrightBytes announced the sale of its DataSense data integration platform to Microsoft. BrightBytes will continue to grow its education data analytics organization, which currently provides predictive analytics across school improvement, digital learning and student success, via its Clarity platform,
KinderLab Robotics expanded its KIBO curriculum suite by announcing the K2-focused Growing with KIBO. It is designed to support classrooms with a complete, sequenced STEAM curriculum covering robotics, coding and computational thinking. In addition, it provides opportunities for integrating these topics with arts and literacy activities.
