Technology In Education

Back-to-school IT teams are buying EdTech in a market where half the funding sits with 10 firms

New Market Pitch data shows EdTech capital is concentrated, even as K-12 operators wrestle with device handouts, identity, and classroom workflows.

AI Readiness in Education

Learn how colleges align AI literacy and workforce readiness through industry partnerships and experiential learning methodologies.

How NASH and Texas are scaling microcredentials

Microcredentials bridge academic qualifications and industry demands through AI-embedded programs and collaborative communities of practice in higher education.

The First Year Experience: A Panel Discussion

Experts discuss how universities enhance first-year experiences through work-integrated learning, structured exploration programs, and early career preparation…

Schools are buying AI fast, but their contracts still can’t show it helps

District AI spending is rising, while Utah and LAUSD push screen-time rules that force a harder question: which tools measurably improve learning?

Education Department’s 5-question edtech check is now the fastest way to buy

New federal guidance turns screen time into a procurement question: prove instructional impact, set usage rules, and show evidence before renewals.

K-12 AI spending is moving from classroom apps to vetting, policy, and proof

Districts are spending more on AI tools, but the operational bottleneck is vetting, policy, and outcomes proof.

The Innovator at the Center of UMCI

How Scott Shireman's path from Indiana farm life to Berkeley's online education pioneer shapes his leadership at the University of Michigan Center for…

AI tutoring is moving from “answer engines” to “process engines”, and K-12 buyers are starting to write that into the spec

A Socratic, sub-3-second homework helper pitch meets a broader shift toward process-based assessment as districts rethink integrity, access, and outcomes.

The U.S. Department of Education’s edtech guidance turns “evidence” into a procurement requirement, even without new federal rules

A new Dear Colleague letter doesn't regulate edtech, but it does reset how districts justify buying it: outcomes and evidence, not adoption or usage metrics

Attain Partners' new maturity model targets the digital gaps behind expanding student success programs

A new SDX maturity model and campus-level student success expansions point to the same ops challenge: digital journeys now decide whether support programs get u

Johns Hopkins is staffing a 24-FTE success coaching program as data-driven advising shifts from pilot to operating model

A Johns Hopkins job posting signals how student success is getting industrialized: dedicated coaching org charts paired with unified data and automated outreach

The Education Department’s 2026 guidance and rules are forcing edtech contracts to carry explicit “purpose, proof, and process” language

Three Education Department moves in summer 2026 are changing how districts and colleges document edtech value, civil-rights compliance, and student-debt risk.

upGrad’s all-stock Unacademy deal makes integration capacity the scarce resource in India’s edtech consolidation

MitchelLake reports upGrad’s CCI-cleared Unacademy acquisition at about ₹2,055 crore, plus a pending Internshala buy. The operational constraint is integration

Districts weigh AI procurement rules as a retail shopping-agent test hints at what's coming

A pair of August 2026 signals, a district buyer’s framework and a consumer AI-agent test, point to new requirements for K-12 AI purchasing and governance.

U.S. institutions pay $2,000–$3,500 per enrolled international student as agency commission models shift away from gross-tuition percentages

A new AIRC benchmarking survey of 61 institutions across 26 states reveals fixed-fee and net-tuition models are replacing traditional percentage commissions.

Work Generated Learning with Andrew Salmon of Intangled Learning

Intangled Learning inverts teacher prep by using organizational practices as curriculum.

DisruptED in the D: How Michigan Central is Changing the Landscape of Detroit with Beth Kmetz-Armitage

How Michigan Central Station restoration catalyzed Detroit revitalization, with Ford offices, transit plans, and neighborhood development anchored by a 30-year…

Teacher Stress Is Still at Crisis Levels in 2026. EdTech Vendors Selling Into Schools Need to Understand Why That Matters.

More than half of US teachers still experience frequent job-related stress in 2026, according to new RAND research published today. For EdTech vendors and enterprise L&D teams selling into school districts, that is not background noise. It is the primary adoption barrier their products need to solve.

How Raptor's StudentSafe tackles behavioral threat assessment and student well-being

Raptor Technologies built its reputation on visitor management, but the company's expansion into student well-being reflects a deliberate response to what its school district customers were already asking for. The result is StudentSafe, a platform designed to support behavioral threat assessment, ca

NYC Council members demand two-year moratorium on AI in city schools

From NYC's two-year AI moratorium push to cognitive development fears, educators and policymakers are rethinking how, and whether, AI belongs in classrooms.

NYC Council members demand two-year pause on AI use in city schools

From NYC council moratorium demands to California bias-audit mandates, AI's role in schools and hiring is triggering a wave of regulation and rethinking.

From Measuring Memory to Measuring Thinking: How Simulation-Based Learning Could Reshape Higher Education

As artificial intelligence continues reshaping the workforce, higher education faces growing pressure to demonstrate its value beyond content mastery. According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report, employers expect 39% of workers' core skills to change or become o

Creative Confidence and Moral Courage: The Leadership Traits Business Schools Should Be Betting On

What students need from higher education is becoming harder to pin down than it once was. As higher education faces mounting pressure—from student disengagement to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence—institutions are being forced to rethink not just what students learn, but who they become. New research and industry signals suggest that technical knowledge…

How the Future of Work Is Being Reshaped by AI, Human Creativity, and Customer-Centered Leadership

As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes industries, many professionals are asking the same urgent question: what happens when AI starts replacing not just repetitive tasks, but the foundational entry-level roles that once launched careers? According to Goldman Sachs Research,

Just Thinking… About How Multilingualism and Language Development Belong at the Center of Student Learning

For millions of students in America, learning English is only one part of a much larger academic story. A 2024 GAO report found that English learners in U.S. public schools grew from 4.5 million to 5 million students between fall 2010 and fall 2020, and that they speak more than 400 languages. That diversity…

AI-Enabled Engineering Is Changing the Rules for Talent, Skills and Workforce Readiness (Episode One)

As AI moves from experimentation into daily enterprise workflows, companies are confronting a harder question than whether to adopt new tools: how to redesign work around them. The shift is already changing what employers need from technical talent, from task-based coding skills

AI-Enabled Engineering Is Changing the Rules for Talent, Skills and Workforce Readiness (Episode Two)

AI’s next workforce challenge is not adoption; it is trust, governance and role redesign. Recent PwC research found that most U.S. executives expected AI agents to drastically transform existing roles, even as fewer than half of companies using agents had fundamentally rethought their operating models or redesigned processes around them. For enterprise technology leaders, the…

Higher Ed Must Build a Talent Supply Chain to Fix Workforce Readiness

The traditional pathway from college to career is starting to break down—and both universities and employers are feeling the strain. Higher education is under mounting pressure to prove career outcomes as employers question graduate readiness and internships decline. In fact, many institutions are reporting shrinking internship pipelines even as employers continue to prioritize prior…

The New Rules of Discoverability: How User-Generated Content Is Reshaping Search, Trust, and Brand Visibility

User-generated content (UGC) is moving from marketing side dish to main course as large language models change how people discover brands, products, creators, and ideas. Customer reviews, forum posts, videos, and community conversations increasingly carry more influence than polished brand copy because they feel more specific, lived-in, and trustworthy. As AI systems learn from…