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Up to 4 million children across India to benefit from LiftEd, an initiative to foster learning and innovation in FLN (foundational literacy and numeracy) launched by a coalition of leading CSR, philanthropic, and non-profit education partners.Mumbai

Analysis: The Oklahoma State Board of Education’s (OSBE) October 26, 2023, monthly meeting clearly demonstrates that improved educational outcomes are OSBE’s the top priority.Good school discipline, keeping parents well informed

Ello aims to eradicate childhood illiteracy by leveraging artificial intelligence and child speech recognition technology. The startup announced today that it secured $15 million in Series A financing to help it do so, and the funding will go toward product development and expanding access to consumers. “Ello is one of those great companies,” Coddy Johnson, partner at lead investor Goodwater Capital told TechCrunch.

Funding to edtech startups has cooled since its pandemic-era highs, but deals are still getting done. Meet the top venture capitalists in the space.

A Tuesday webinar at the annual ASU+GSV Summit conference explored how ed-tech tools have transformed aspects of education such as instruction and academic support, and what they might yet do for the learning process.

A 1st grade teacher in Nebraska discusses how an ed-tech product helps her accelerate learning for her students.

At the recent AI+Education Summit, Stanford researchers, students, and industry leaders discussed both the potential of AI to transform education for the better and the risks at play.

A virtual, one-to-one, 15-minute-a-day tutoring program in elementary and middle school reading is getting a tryout in a dozen Little Rock School District schools this semester.

LITTLE ROCK -- A virtual, one-to-one, 15-minute-a-day tutoring program in elementary and middle school reading is getting a tryout in a dozen Little Rock School District schools this semester.

Black VCs got about 2.1% of the overall funding the US VC industry brought in last year, in what was a record fundraising year, recent data shows.