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03/22/2023

While there has been a comeback since the pandemic, levels in the fall of the 2021-2022 school year remained lower than for the last pre-pandemic fall. https://hubs.la/Q01HyJFN0

03/21/2023

Recent research into the science of reading has highlighted the need to integrate phonics instruction in reading instruction. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has called for a statewide initiative to improve reading instruction based on the science of reading and the state is investing in training programs for teachers to help them incorporate this approach into their instruction. Read more about trends in the science of reading by subscribing to Education Market Advisor: https://hubs.la/Q01HyBSN0

03/10/2023

Publishers and investment professionals can trust Simba Information's PreK-12 Enrollment and Demographics 2023-2024 to provide the inside intelligence needed to evaluate the changes and student needs effecting public, private and home-based K-12 schoolin

Publishers and investment professionals can trust Simba Information's PreK-12 Enrollment and Demographics 2023-2024 to provide the inside intelligence needed to evaluate the changes and student needs effecting public, private and home-based K-12 schooling. https://hubs.la/Q01G7X9Q0

03/08/2023

An uncertain economic environment, popular support, and new mandates around financial education will drive demand for curricula, student resources, and professional development for teachers. Current and incoming financial literacy mandates are expanding beyond the earlier focus of one-off high school courses and expanding to ensuring financial literacy instruction for all K-12 grade levels.

Subscribe to read more about the opportunity for educational publishers in the growing area of financial literacy in Simba’s March 3rd, 2023 edition of Education Market Advisor: https://hubs.la/Q01FJP9z0

03/01/2023

Growth in the reading instructional market will be driven by a variety of factors including increased activities in evidence-based reading instruction as well as the use of digital technologies. https://www.freedoniagroup.com/simba-information/prek

Growth in the reading instructional market will be driven by a variety of factors including increased activities in evidence-based reading instruction as well as the use of digital technologies. https://hubs.la/Q01DHfcR0

02/08/2023

There are many new and unanswered questions on how is going to change the way providers of educational materials operate. A key discussion surrounds authorship. One writer relied completely on ChatGPT to generate a children’s book—reportedly doing it in less than 8 hours and for a cost of under $100. There is also considerable opportunity in how publishers can assist teachers in areas ranging from plagiarism to copyright to citation matters. Read more about ChatGPT's impact on the classroom and the educational publishing industry in Simba’s February 3, 2023 Education Market Advisor: https://hubs.la/Q01BC0l70

01/13/2023

Teachers Know Students Need Social Emotional Learning, Face Challenges Delivering Support, According to New Survey From ReadTheory

In 2021, the Center for Disease Control revealed that 37 percent of high school students reported poor mental health during the pandemic, while 44 percent said they persistently felt sad or hopeless during the past year.

WILMINGTON, DE – August 4, 2022 – A new survey reveals that while teachers know their students need help developing social emotional skills, they rarely have time or adequate training to focus on…

01/12/2023

SEL is critical–but teachers rarely have time to address it

According to Simba Information, spending for SEL instructional materials was $1.725 billion for the 2021-2022 school year.

While teachers know their students need help developing social emotional skills, they rarely have time or adequate training to focus on them in the classroom, according to a new survey from ReadThe…

01/04/2023

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01/03/2023

Global Professional Publishing 2022-2026: This report analyzes the overall industry, segments, key companies and larger forces and trends impacting the global professional market. https://www.simbainformation.com/Global-Professional-Publishin

Global Professional Publishing 2022-2026: This report analyzes the overall industry, segments, key companies and larger forces and trends impacting the global professional market. https://hubs.la/Q01wSGjl0

12/22/2022

Simba’s "State of College Course Materials 2022-2024" has found that college course materials will decrease 3.5% to $3.1 billion in 2022, reversing the previous year’s one year period of positive results. https://www.simbainformation.com/State-College

Simba’s "State of College Course Materials 2022-2024" has found that college course materials will decrease 3.5% to $3.1 billion in 2022, reversing the previous year’s one year period of positive results. https://hubs.la/Q01wrdCH0

12/14/2022

The growth and interest in the “science of reading” offers opportunities for educational publishers who face a rare opportunity when trends coalesce around a specific product category. Brands that are on-trend in this space now have considerable opportunity to displace incumbent instructional products. There is also considerable market opportunity in teacher training, an essential element of reading instruction, and many states are mandating training in evidence-based reading instruction. Read more about the Science of Reading in Simba’s December 9 2022 issue of Education Market Advisor: https://hubs.la/Q01vMPMq0

12/09/2022

Open access is a movement being brought by many constituencies in the scholarly research community to determine the best, most cost-efficient method to expose research findings in the form of scholarly papers to the widest audience possible. https://www.

Open access is a movement being brought by many constituencies in the scholarly research community to determine the best, most cost-efficient method to expose research findings in the form of scholarly papers to the widest audience possible. https://hubs.la/Q01vvG750

11/14/2022

As stress levels become unmanageable for teachers, many have left their jobs and the nation is suffering a severe teacher shortage. To get more teachers, some states have eliminated certain testing requirements such as Pearson’s edTPA and ETS’s Praxis. Some schools are even relying on non-credentialed school staff to lead a classroom. Read more about the implications of the teacher shortage in Simba’s first of its two part series, published in the November 11, 2022 edition of Education Market Advisor: https://hubs.la/Q01sc0hn0

11/11/2022

The Big Drop in Student Test Scores: What Does it Mean for Educational Publishers?

In September, the National Center for Education Statistics released new student assessment data that confirmed what educators and parents have feared. https://hubs.la/Q01s5WDd0

In September, the National Center for Education Statistics released new student assessment data that confirmed what educators and parents have feared.

11/10/2022

PreK-12 Instructional Materials Competitive Analysis 2022 finds that publishers are making a variety of adjustments to what they need to do to be competitive and successful to deal with the realities of the lingering impacts of COVID-19. https://www.simb

PreK-12 Instructional Materials Competitive Analysis 2022 finds that publishers are making a variety of adjustments to what they need to do to be competitive and successful to deal with the realities of the lingering impacts of COVID-19. https://hubs.la/Q01rQXHw0

11/09/2022

Rely on Simba Information’s PreK-12 Enrollment and Demographics 2022-2023 to build your strategy in serving the preK-12 market for 2022 and forward. https://www.simbainformation.com/PreK-Enrollment-Demographics-31980068/

Rely on Simba Information’s PreK-12 Enrollment and Demographics 2022-2023 to build your strategy in serving the preK-12 market for 2022 and forward. https://hubs.la/Q01rR1cZ0

10/20/2022

The surging educational technology and publishing market in India is complex and multifaceted. The country's "National Education Policy 2020" spurred development of a new curriculum and consequently created an urgent need for the development of new instructional materials. US companies with a presence in the country include Scholastic, McGraw-Hill and Pearson.

Read more about trends and challenges facing the dynamic educational publishing industry in India in the October 14, 2022 issue of Simba’s Education Market Advisor. https://hubs.la/Q01qbLsb0

10/04/2022

The pandemic caused educators, administrators, parents and teachers to take an even harder look at fairness, equity, and effectiveness in student testing. A key development over the past year has been a high level of interest in the “balanced assessment approach" which puts an emphasis on “formative assessment,” which monitors student learning to provide ongoing feedback to instructors. Within the balanced assessment approach, the “through year” model has been getting the most attention and being piloted.

You can read more about changes in the testing industry in the September 30th 2022 issue of Simba’s Education Market Advisor. https://hubs.la/Q01nPQhd0

08/22/2022

Online tutoring and alternative credentialing is on the rise. According to UNICEF, in 2019 micro- and alternative credential spending by learners, governments and industry totaled around $10 billion globally. And in July 2022, nearly half of the over six million unemployed U.S. workers reported having some form of alternative credential. Read more about what's happening with online and alternative credentialing in the latest issue of Simba's Education Market Advisor. https://hubs.la/Q01kCWR90

08/01/2022

Digital and online learning, which surged during the pandemic, continues to grow and play a major role in US schools, and is spurring the federal government to ensure uninterrupted internet connections. https://hubs.la/Q01hZR7h0

07/25/2022

Why are an increasing number of special education teachers leaving the classroom? According to the latest issue of Simba's Education Market Advisor, the three key drivers are new teachers who have a higher chance of leaving the profession, more educators moving to retirement, and work-related stress. To learn more about teacher shortages and to read other articles from the issue, subscribe today! https://hubs.la/Q01hvD6j0

07/07/2022

K-12 Supplemental Materials Market

The K-12 instructional supplemental materials market was estimated at $3.8 billion in 2020 and forecast to increase to $4.6 billion in 2024. https://hubs.la/Q01gnKBP0

For more information, visit https://www.simbainformation.com/Supplemental-Materials-31869405/Simba has estimated the size of the K-12 instructional supplemen...

07/06/2022

The Global Legal Publishing 2022-2026 report provides an overview and financial outlook for the global legal publishing market based on specific research and analysis of industry forces and trends and of the leading competitors’ performance. https://www

The Global Legal Publishing 2022-2026 report provides an overview and financial outlook for the global legal publishing market based on specific research and analysis of industry forces and trends and of the leading competitors’ performance. https://hubs.la/Q01gc_9v0

06/29/2022

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Market Worth $1.725 Billion, and Growing Fast

Blog: The market for K-12 instructional materials in social-emotional learning (SEL) is relatively small, but represents one of the fastest-growing areas within the K-12 space due to a combination of factors. https://hubs.la/Q01fPjF90

The market for K-12 instructional materials in social-emotional learning (SEL) is relatively small, but represents one of the fastest-growing areas within the K-12 space.

06/27/2022

Sales of digital social and emotional learning () materials, which include videos and gaming, are growing slightly faster than sales of physical materials, such as journals, workbooks, emotion tracking stickers, charts, and project-based kits. Other SEL data and trends are reported on in the latest issue of Education Market Advisor. https://hubs.la/Q01fDWsX0

06/10/2022

Teachers like to download supplementary resources from the web to use in their classroom, but researchers question these materials' quality and effectiveness. Simba provides details and analysis in its latest issue of Education Market Advisor. https://hubs.la/Q01dkRfd0

06/01/2022

Social and Emotional Learning: 2022-2023

Social and Emotional Learning: 2022-2023 analyzes the overall spending, segments, and the larger forces and trends for the fast growing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) instructional materials market in the U.S. https://hubs.la/Q01cwzxB0

For more information, visit https://www.simbainformation.com/Social-Emotional-Learning-31583633/Simba has estimated that sales of social-emotional learning (...

05/16/2022

Trends in Media Literacy Education

Blog: Here’s a look at why interest in teaching media literacy is rising and what leading states are doing in response. https://hubs.la/Q01bmXHy0

Media literacy is a field that is rapidly gaining traction and is opening up new publishing opportunities for the educational market.

05/02/2022

PreK-12 Policy & Budget Outlook, 2022-2023: This new report provides an update, review and analysis of recent, current and planned federal and state policies and budget for the prek-12 educational arena https://www.simbainformation.com/PreK-Policy-Budget

PreK-12 Policy & Budget Outlook, 2022-2023: This new report provides an update, review and analysis of recent, current and planned federal and state policies and budget for the prek-12 educational arena https://hubs.la/Q019bWzm0

04/28/2022

Textbook Publishers Under Siege: How to Develop a Plan to Mitigate the Risk of Book Bans https://hubs.la/Q0194VjW0

03/17/2022

K-12 Science Market Outlook

A continuation of strong state budgets and grants from both governmental and non-governmental sources to promote science and will be key factors in spurring the market for K-12 instructional materials in science. https://hubs.la/Q016bsQK0

To learn more about this report, visit https://www.simbainformation.com/Science-Outlook-31014100/A continuation of strong state budgets and grants from both ...

02/07/2022

STM Online Services 2021-2025 focuses on the scientific, technical and medical databases that offer original content or abstracting and indexing services to academic, government and commercial customers. https://www.simbainformation.com/STM-Online-Servic

STM Online Services 2021-2025 focuses on the scientific, technical and medical databases that offer original content or abstracting and indexing services to academic, government and commercial customers. https://hubs.la/Q013zk-F0

01/06/2022

The State of College Course Materials 2021-2023

The number of students taking at least one distance course increased 4.8% in fall 2019 from fall 2018. Learn more from our latest study: The State of College Course Materials 2021-2023 https://hubs.ly/Q011zvCB0

For more information, visit https://www.simbainformation.com/State-College-Course-Materials-30461068/The College Course Materials reports from Simba Informat...

10/21/2021

Council Post: 15 Tips For Retaining Top Employees (And Why They're Effective)

Robert Granader, CEO: "An employee needs a close relationship to something—a person, a product or a manager." https://hubs.la/H0ZHhbQ0

Employers have to start preparing for a workforce where employees are no longer afraid to move on to bigger and better opportunities.

09/22/2021

Rely on Simba’s "Global Medical Publishing 2021-2025" to build your growth plan for this year and beyond. https://www.simbainformation.com/Global-Medical-Publishing-30087236/

Rely on Simba’s "Global Medical Publishing 2021-2025" to build your growth plan for this year and beyond. https://hubs.la/H0Xz5c40

09/21/2021

Blog: PreK-12 Instructional Materials Providers Focus on Digital as the Industry Reacts to Education Market Changes https://hubs.la/H0XyVCF0

09/20/2021

Blog: As the start of the 2021-2022 school year approached in August, school superintendents were focused on active learning, engagement and building deep connections, but found that COVID-19 continued to impact schools. https://hubs.la/H0XyMXX0

08/12/2021

Blog: One of the most interesting points about the pandemic is how it has propelled the transition to more digital learning in U.S. schools. The need for online products and services rose dramatically. https://hubs.la/H0V51F_0

08/09/2021

This report examines how prek-12 instructional material providers responded to the pandemic’s impact on schools. https://www.simbainformation.com/PreK-Instructional-Materials-Competitive-14883318/

This report examines how prek-12 instructional material providers responded to the pandemic’s impact on schools. https://hubs.la/H0TTSGT0