Dive Brief:
- An initiative signed onto by Google and Bing may make it easier to find lesson plans and worksheets.
- The idea would be to provide behind-the-scenes tags for such content and give users filters for searching.
- The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative would let teachers search by grade level, subject area and Common Core alignment.
Dive Insight:
Two-thirds of educators said in a 2013 survey that irrelevant search results were a major frustration. The organization that created the initiative has received $400,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.