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<p>Introducing Google Play for Education, the online destination where schools
can find the right tablet content and tools for their students and teachers.</p>

<p>With easy bulk ordering for groups, schools can purchase and
instantly distribute your apps, and videos right to their students’
devices.</p>

<p>Google Play for Education can help your innovative educational apps
gain visibility with the right audiences, without having to knock on school doors. </p>

<p><a class="landing-page-link" style="text-align:right;" href="#video">Watch a Video</a></p>

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<h4>Get discovered</h4>

<p>With Google Play for Education, teachers and administrators can
browse content by curriculum, grade, and standard &mdash; discovering the right
content for their students. If your app offers an exciting new
way to learn sixth grade algebra, math educators will be able to find,
purchase, and distribute your app to their classes in a few clicks.</p>

<h4>Reach more schools and students</h4>

<p>Over 30 million students, faculty, and staff are already using
Google Apps for Education and other Google services. Many of these schools are
excited to take advantage of tablets with Google Play for Education and they
look to bringing your apps into their classrooms,
especially apps using Google sign-on.</p>

<h4>Monetize effectively</h4>
<p>With Google Play for Education, educators are able to make high-volume purchases
using standard institutional payment mechanisms and distribute them to the students
they want &mdash; whether it is a class of 20 or a district of 20,000.</p>
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    <h3 style="clear:left">For Educators</h3>
    <h4>Android tablets in the classroom</h4>
    <p>Google Play for Education brings the innovation of Android technology
into classrooms. School districts can set up and deploy large numbers of devices in
just minutes or hours rather than days.</p>

    <h4>Curriculum-based discovery</h4>
    <p>Powerful browsing tools let educators quickly discover apps,
videos, and other content&mdash;with many recommended by teachers and
categorized according to familiar Core Curriculum standards.  

    <h4>Bulk purchase with institutional payment</h4>
    <p>Convenient purchasing and delivery tools let educators buy apps in bulk
using purchase orders and other payment methods that are easy for schools to
manage.</p>

    <h4>Over-the-air delivery to student devices</h4>

      <p>After finding apps they want to use, educators can push them instantly
to student devices over the air. They can send the apps to individuals or groups
of any size, across classrooms, schools, or even districts. </p>

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        <h4>Introducing Google Play for Education</h4>

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          Hear how Google Play for Education works and how developers can leverage the unique business opportunities in creating educational apps for the K-12 market. There's a demo at 4m10s.</p>
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