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4.0 Schools

https://www.4pt0.org

Last activity: 04.11.2021

4.0 is an early-stage education incubator that brings educators, entrepreneurs and technologists tog

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Location: United States, Louisiana, New Orleans

Employees: 1-10

Founded date: 2010

Investment Type: Accelerator

Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A

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Date	Title	Description	Source
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 gen...	readwrite....
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 adoptio...	edsurge.co...
04.08.2020	Microschools Meet The Moment	Students in classroom at Prenda SchoolsCourtesy Prenda Schools After tutoring kids in a Phoenix lib...	forbes.com...
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 t...	edsurge.co...
03.10.2016	Desperately Seeking: Culturally Relevant Ideas and Innovatio...	Our cities are growing in diversity at an exponential rate, but our teacher workforce is not. Within...	edsurge.co...
02.03.2016	Things to Do, Places to Go, People to Meet at SXSWedu 2016 (...	What happens in Austin—gets posted on EdSurge. Get ready for thousands of entrepreneurs, educators,...	edsurge.co...
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 entrepreneu...	observer.c...
16.07.2015	Startup Weekend EDU Organizer, Education Entrepreneurs Heads...	Since the first Startup Weekend EDU began in San Francisco in August 2010, the 54-hour hackathons ha...	edsurge.co...
23.06.2015	Tom Vander Ark: Why Private Capital Wins Out Over Philanthro...	Tom Vander Ark has worn many education hats over the years. He’s been a superintendent, worked for t...	edsurge.co...
06.05.2015	Between the Extremes: The Fundamentals of an Innovative Scho...	The call for innovative solutions that will disrupt an antiquated school model have grown to a din. ...	edsurge.co...
29.10.2014	Educators and Entrepreneurs: Get Thee to a Classroom and Obs...	Forget policy. Forget expertise. Want to design better schools? Force yourself to sit in a classroom...	edsurge.co...
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...	edsurge.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....	edsurge.co...
03.06.2014	Dinner Lab Raises $2.1 Million For Its Modern-Day Supper Clu...	Dinner Lab, an exclusive supper club that lets up-and-coming chefs test their recipes by preparing m...	techcrunch...
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 t...	edsurge.co...
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 th...	edsurge.co...
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 percent...	edsurge.co...
11.06.2013	Would You Rather Go to Hogwarts or Hop On the Magic School B...	Over the past few years, thousands of people have had the thrill of trying to start a company in a w...	edsurge.co...
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-prof...	edsurge.co...
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 s...	edsurge.co...
11.09.2012	Kinobi Will Use Kinect To Teach You Yoga, Dancing Or Maybe E...	YouTube makes it easy to find instructional videos on practically any topic. There are 18,600,000 se...	techcrunch...
04.09.2012	Zappos’ Tony Hsieh Bets on Both Schools and Jobs to Jumpstar...	Downtown Las Vegas is not on most tourists’ radar. Most attention is lavished on the Strip, that lon...	edsurge.co...
21.11.2011	A Recap of Education Hack Day	We came, we saw, we hacked The weekend before last, roughly 70 software designers, developers, make...	technical....

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