New Ed Tech Procurement Guide Simplifies Purchasing

The EdTech Quality Collaborative, a group of six education-focused organizations, recently released a new tool for assessing and purchasing K–12 technology. The guide grew from an issue that touches every district in the nation: tech sprawl. The average district accesses nearly 3,000 distinct ed tech products in a year, but until now there was no K–12-specific framework for evaluating these tools. That lack of guidance — and the disconnect between procurement and actual classroom use — often leads to low tech adoption and wasted funds.  The collaborative, made up of 1EdTech, CAST, CoSN,…