The New York Board of Regents approved regulations for Education Law §2-d. The law was passed in March 2014 introducing contract requirements between schools and vendors, security standards when handling student data, and financial penalties for vendors if found out of compliance. The regulations go into effect on January 29, 2020.

Jack Lynch is the CEO, President, and Director at HMH, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Lynch is an active member of the K-12 education industry.

“. . . as education companies we can't just come up with a great product, show it to teachers, and expect to be successful. Our products and services have to help decision makers with their state and federal compliance and intricately defined funding requirements if we are going to be successful. If we don’t know what these are, we can’t get our products accepted.”  — Mitch Weisburgh, Managing Partner, Academic Business Advisors

SIIA is currently seeking expert reviewers to serve as judges for the 2019 CODiE Awards.  If you are an Educator or Administrator we are looking for your expertise to judge the Education Technology categories. If you are an Executive, Analyst, Consultant, or a Project Leader we need your expertise to judge the Business Technology categories. 

Nominations for the 2018 CODiE Awards are officially open! more

 If you are an Educator or Administrator we are looking for your expertise to judge the Education Technology categories. If you are an Executive, Analyst, Consultant, or a Project Leader we need your expertise to judge the Business Technology categories.   more

The instructional materials marketplace has changed markedly over the last few years. More school districts are shifting from physical textbooks to digital and online resources and increasingly are utilizing openly licensed resources [or open educational resources (OER)] to supplement commercially developed materials. In addition, commercial materials developers have even begun to incorporate OER within their own content and have started to curate OER for schools.

A recent article in Politico claims that the federal E-Rate program produced no gains in student SAT results in North Carolina public high schools. With this assertion, the author concludes that federal programs supporting school connectivity nationwide should be eliminated, or at least halted until investments can demonstrate a stronger relationship with student outcomes. But the article’s underlying study doesn’t support such a sweeping conclusion, and the author fails to recognize the key role played by professional development for teachers in improving classroom learning through technology. more

SIIA Testifies at Joint Congressional Subcommittee Hearing on Student Privacy