News Corp. is putting its Amplify electronic learning platform and curriculum up for sale because the new school year selling season flopped and the rush to digital tools never materialized. Was the ...

N.Y. company releases Amplify tablet just for schools Teacher can see what students are working on Tablets come preloaded with textbooks%2C lessons%2C tests and e-books Can a tablet computer replace ...

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Mar 6, 2013) - Today at SXSWedu in Austin, Texas, Amplify Education unveiled the first open, tablet-based learning platform designed specifically for K-12 education. The ...

Amplify is one of the most scrutinized companies in education technology—only partly because its parent company is News Corporation. When News Corp. acquired Wireless Generation for $390 million in ...

Ride the elevator up to the eighth floor of a loft-like office building in the heart of Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood, and you’ll find a thriving education technology startup called Amplify on track ...

Joel Klein, exec VP of News Corp. and former chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, has unwrapped the conglom’s new education division, Amplify, which has been cloaked in mystery for ...

Yesterday, Amplify announced a collaboration with Intel Education to offer a ruggedized tablet built for K-12 education. The new tablet has a break- and scratch-resistant screen made of Corning ...

Joel Klein, Amplify CEO and former NYC Schools Chancellor. (Photo: Brian Ach/Getty Images) Tonight, in a companywide email obtained by the Observer, Amplify Education, the edtech division of Rupert ...

Amplify, the beleaguered digital education division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., was sold last week to a team of 11 Amplify executives that includes former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amplify, a publisher of next-generation curriculum and assessment programs, has been listed by the Ohio Department of Education as an approved assessment and tutoring ...

The company that lost out on a new multi-million dollar contract to test the reading skills of North Carolina elementary school students is appealing the decision and asking that the new contract be ...

The U.S. spends more than $1 trillion a year on education. Globally, that figure is more than $5 trillion, almost three times the worldwide entertainment market. In 2015, $1.85 billion in venture ...