Acting Education Secretary John King, former education commissioner for New York, is known for benefiting from innovative programs that his predecessor started.

The Newseum is holding its sixth annual Teachers Open House Oct. 3, where 12th-grade English teacher Annette Spahr will show colleagues how to incorporate Twitter into lesson…

Andrew Marcinek was hired to work in the Office of Educational Technology, officials announced Tuesday. He will work on connecting K-12 and higher ed schools to openly-licensed…

Sharon Leu, who oversees the largest federal grant program for community colleges at the Department of Labor, will join OET next week to develop post-secondary programs.

The clusters are a network of school districts, edtech startups, community organizers and other stakeholders. They are descending on the Windy City next week to discuss how…

The 12th annual Games for Learning summit kicked off Tuesday in New York, and officials from the Office of Educational Technology encouraged developers to craft virtual games…

The new guide crowdsources ideas and recommendations from developers, educators and researchers to gauge the best digital tools out there and how there are opportunities for more.

Department of Education officials hosted a panel on the White House initiatives to increase high-speed broadband access in schools and get the word out that educators can…

Trying to make good on its pledge to increase high-speed broadband and Internet access in schools across the country, the Obama administration will host Google hangouts and…