| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.11.2021 | 3 Most Inspiring Education Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022 | Entrepreneurship is a popular subject. And yet, traditional education is failing to train future generations when it comes to owning their own businesses.
Failing to train future generations has led to the rise of a group of entrepreneurs f... |
| 21.12.2020 | 2020: The Year Of the Edtech Paradox | In many ways, 2020 has been THE year of edtech. Technology experienced a meaningful surge in adoption by schools, districts and parents. The industry saw large capital inflows and more edtech “unicorns” than in any other prior year. Mergers... |
| 04.08.2020 | Microschools Meet The Moment | Students in classroom at Prenda SchoolsCourtesy Prenda Schools |
| 12.10.2016 | Techstars Takes Over Startup Weekend Education | Startup Weekend Education is on the move again.
Today, 4.0 Schools, a New Orleans-based nonprofit that has managed Startup Weekend Education (SWEDU) events for the past year, announced it is turning the keys over to Techstars, which operate... |
| 03.10.2016 | Desperately Seeking: Culturally Relevant Ideas and Innovation in Education | Our cities are growing in diversity at an exponential rate, but our teacher workforce is not. Within the Providence Public School District, nearly 92 percent of students are people of color while the teaching force is almost 80 percent whit... |
| 02.03.2016 | Things to Do, Places to Go, People to Meet at SXSWedu 2016 (K-12 Edition) | What happens in Austin—gets posted on EdSurge.
Get ready for thousands of entrepreneurs, educators, administrators and everyone in between to descend on Austin next week for SXSWedu. It’s one of the biggest education conference of the year,... |
| 28.08.2015 | A Decade After Katrina, New Orleans Is a Haven for Startups | Propeller, a startup accelerator, is one of the companies fueling New Orleans’ growth in entrepreneurship 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. (Photo: Facebook)
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005, the city’s economy suff... |
| 16.07.2015 | Startup Weekend EDU Organizer, Education Entrepreneurs Heads to (4.0) Schools | Since the first Startup Weekend EDU began in San Francisco in August 2010, the 54-hour hackathons have seen thousands of education enthusiasts pitch, prototype and present their ideas. A few have also continued on the path to building tools... |
| 23.06.2015 | Tom Vander Ark: Why Private Capital Wins Out Over Philanthropy in the Game of Innovation | Tom Vander Ark has worn many education hats over the years. He’s been a superintendent, worked for the Gates Foundation, and served as a finance guy for a startup. But more recently, he’s got street cred as CEO of Getting Smart and Partner ... |
| 06.05.2015 | Between the Extremes: The Fundamentals of an Innovative School | The call for innovative solutions that will disrupt an antiquated school model have grown to a din. Yet even with more education innovation groups emerging--incubators, graduate programs, funds, and companies--two stifling trends remain fru... |
| 29.10.2014 | Educators and Entrepreneurs: Get Thee to a Classroom and Observe Students | Forget policy. Forget expertise. Want to design better schools? Force yourself to sit in a classroom and see what it is actually like to be a student.
Alexis Wiggins, a veteran high school teacher, shadowed students for two days and recentl... |
| 09.10.2014 | Should You Join an Edtech Accelerator? | The early stages of a startup are always fresh and exciting. Ideas flourish and expectations rise in world of limitless possibilities. Yet the early days are also filled with uncertainty--resources, funding, bringing in the right people, co... |
| 10.06.2014 | Why We Should Read More About the History of Education | Starting this week, we will host 16 courageous, thoughtful people in the ninth cohort of 4.0 Launch.
Christine Ortiz, who’s leading the design team for this cohort, dared me to facilitate a class on the history and philosophy of education, ... |
| 03.06.2014 | Dinner Lab Raises $2.1 Million For Its Modern-Day Supper Club | Dinner Lab, an exclusive supper club that lets up-and-coming chefs test their recipes by preparing multi-course meals for a private audience, has just raised its first outside funding. The previously bootstrapped New Orleans-based company h... |
| 17.05.2014 | Help! I'm a Teacher...How Do I Get into Education Technology? | When I first started teaching fifth grade science at KIPP Academy in Houston, Texas, I had no idea that I would end up parlaying that experience into my current role as a consultant to education technology companies. I was simply a teacher ... |
| 07.04.2014 | 10 Must-Do's While in New Orleans for NCTM's Annual Meeting | To all of the math educators heading to New Orleans for NCSM/NCTM Annual Meeting & Exposition this week--welcome to the Big Easy!
You might wonder why the CEO of a startup that builds instructional management systems would be writing ab... |
| 09.02.2014 | How New Orleans Kindergartners are 'Making' Their Own Future | Currently, charter schools make up approximately 90% of all public schools in New Orleans, a percentage that dwarfs that of any other major U.S. city. The city is incredibly diverse, both in race (60% black, 35% white, 5% Latino/Hispanic) a... |
| 11.06.2013 | Would You Rather Go to Hogwarts or Hop On the Magic School Bus? | Over the past few years, thousands of people have had the thrill of trying to start a company in a weekend, thanks to Startup Weekend workshops.
But you want a serious challenge? Try redesigning a school.
Last weekend (June 7-9), some 130 p... |
| 12.04.2013 | It Takes an Incubator. But How Many? | There is no question that education is an unusual industry: Nonprofit ventures compete with for-profits. (In fact, it’s frequently hard to tell them apart.) The “users” of products aren’t typically the folks who are the “buyers” of products... |
| 26.03.2013 | How to Hack an Edtech Startup (Weekend) | For newbie edtech enthusiasts looking to get a taste of what it’s like to build a startup, there’s simply no better crash course than Startup Weekend EDU. (Of course, it was also a delight to see familiar faces that love the energy and exci... |
| 11.09.2012 | Kinobi Will Use Kinect To Teach You Yoga, Dancing Or Maybe Even Surgery | YouTube makes it easy to find instructional videos on practically any topic. There are 18,600,000 search results for “how to” on the site at the moment. Obviously not all of them are relevant, but that’s a staggering number. But if you’re t... |
| 04.09.2012 | Zappos’ Tony Hsieh Bets on Both Schools and Jobs to Jumpstart Vegas | Downtown Las Vegas is not on most tourists’ radar. Most attention is lavished on the Strip, that long-time glimmering outpost of vice, decadence and easy riches, swathed in that suggestive slogan, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... |
| 21.11.2011 | A Recap of Education Hack Day | We came, we saw, we hacked
The weekend before last, roughly 70 software designers, developers, makers, and educators convened at Digital Harbor High School for an Education Hack Day. The mission was simple: listen to problems sourced by tea... |
