Code.org is drastically increasing the number of underrepresented minorities taking AP computer science

 Code.org, which started offering an advanced placement computer science principles this school year in partnership with…

Leapfrogging in higher ed

 For more than 100 years higher education has largely resisted change — and functioned reasonably well…

Teachable books $4 million to turn everybody into educators online

 Education tech startup Teachable (formerly known as Fedora) has raised $4 million in a Series A…

Oohlala aims to school the university-specific app space with a $4M Series A

 There’s an app for everything these days, including attending college, but that doesn’t mean it’s a…

Microsoft launches Intune for Education to counter Google’s Chromebooks in schools

 Microsoft today announced Intune for Education, a new tier of its existing enterprise application and device…

Google is making Chromebooks even more useful for schools

 Google made a number of major announcements about its Chromebook program at the Bett education technology…

Hanson Robotics built a Professor Einstein toy to teach kids science with a familiar face

 Hanson Robotics is making its first foray into the consumer electronics market with an educational toy…

Tandem is a messaging app where language learners chat

 Shortly after downloading the Tandem app I’m trying to explain the finer points of using the…