HotChalk


HotChalk is an education technology company that launched in September 2004. HotChalk runs an online community application designed for grade school teachers, students and parents. In August 2007, McGraw-Hill partnered with HotChalk to make McGraw-Hill training and certification tools available to HotChalk users. NBC partnered with HotChalk as well to distribute NBC news archives to supplement educational materials.
HotChalk was founded by Edward M. Fields; the company's current CEO is Rob Wrubel.
The company drew scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Education in the mid 2010s as they investigated HotChalk's relationship with Concordia University of Portland, Oregon. The university's $160 million deal with HotChalk drew scrutiny with a federal prosecutor alleging that the agreement between HotChalk and Concordia University violated a law that prohibits incentives for recruitment and outsourcing more than half an educational program to an unaccredited party. The investigation was settled out-of-court for $1 million and no admissions of wrongdoing.