Edtech Companies

Newsela is a K-12 edtech company that serves millions of learners and teachers by offering thousands of standards-aligned texts, videos, and activities across ELA, social studies, and science. Their content is available at multiple reading levels and easily integrates with real-time assessment and instructional insights. Adopted by ~90% of U.S. schools and tens of millions of students, Newsela has become a widely used platform for engaging literacy and knowledge-building. Their platform also includes tools for writing feedback, teacher dashboards, and growing subject-specific expansions, such as STEM through its acquisition of Generation Genius. Newsela acts as a comprehensive instructional content and assessment layer, helping educators engage students with current, differentiated content and track growth across key literacy and knowledge domains.

ParentSquare helps schools communicate with families by sending messages, alerts, forms, and payments by text, email, voice, and app, with translation in many languages. After acquiring Remind in 2023, ParentSquare now supports communication for more than 20mm students across the U.S.

Wiley (John Wiley & Sons) is a publishing and education company focused on academic, professional, and instructional content that gets distributed in both print and digital formats. The company’s solutions include books, journals, online learning tools, assessment/learning platforms, and institutional services.

WileyPLUS — An online teaching and learning platform that integrates textbooks with digital media, adaptive assignments, assessments, analytics, and instructor tools.

Knewton Alta — Adaptive courseware designed to adjust content to individual students’ needs, especially in STEM.

zyBooks — Interactive STEM eTextbooks with animations, embedded assessments, and active learning features designed to replace textbooks.

Wiley Online Library / Wiley-Blackwell — A portfolio of journals, eBooks, reference works, and scholarly content in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and more.

Khan Academy is a nonprofit education organization that provides free learning tools for students around the world. It offers lessons, practice, and videos across math, science, reading, and test prep. The organization also offers Khan Academy Kids and Khanmigo, a widely used AI tutor. Khan Academy serves over 190mm users.

Benchmark Education is a K–12 publisher that specializes in literacy and language arts for both English and Spanish. It offers core curriculum, supplemental materials, reading-intervention programs, and bilingual resources for English language learners. The company also provides educator training, through its digital platform, Benchmark Universe, for instruction and assessment in for K–8 students.