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NewSchools is a venture philanthropy that builds a better education system by connecting people, resources, and ideas. We bridge the gap between those with capital and those with the courage to put that capital to work on the frontlines of education. We believe that philanthropy can advance education in a more equitable, collaborative, and courageous way—and we’re proving it every day. Learn more at www.newschools.org.

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Feb 23, 2026	Securing the future: Simplified management, Scalable growth, and built-in compliance for K-12
Aug 12, 2024	European, SWANA startups power through slowdown in Ed-tech funding	After record growth, Ed-tech sector slows down - but not worldwide Following the pandemic-driven surge in the Ed-tech sector, enthusiasm for education technology has waned. After $20.8 billion was raised in 2021 and $10.6 billion in 2022,...
Oct 5, 2023	The Incredible Education Journey Of David Heiber, Concentric Educational Solutions	The leadership team at Concentric Education. which announced a $5 million equity investment. Concentric Education
Feb 22, 2021	Elise Smith, CEO Of Praxis Labs, Raises $3.2 Million In Venture Capital To Help Bring Forth More Conscious Leaders Using Virtual Reality	Elise Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, Praxis Labs Photo credit: Brandon Appleton
Feb 9, 2021	How Systems And States Can Encourage More And Better Project-Based Learning	Napa Junction Elementary, a New Tech Network school Tom Vander Ark
Feb 8, 2021	4 Ways To Change How Schools Serve Black Students	getty
Jan 13, 2021	What’s The EdTech Vaccine? 10 Design Principles	EdTech Photo by Julia M Cameron from Pexels
Mar 28, 2020	65% Of Teachers Used EdTech Every Day In 2019. Here’s Why That Matters.	Suddenly, the nation’s living rooms and kitchen tables are the center of learning for most of America’s 50 million public school students. Before this massive transition, teachers and students were using digital learning tools in their clas...
Sep 24, 2019	Who Should Truly Have the Power in K-12 Edtech Adoption?	Technology administrators are very busy people. Often they are in charge of a district’s network infrastructure, manage a team of support personnel who handle school-site work tickets, develop and lead professional development, and constant...
Sep 11, 2019	Not Just Classroom Supplies: Teachers Also Buy Edtech With Their Own Money	When new trends become the norm, report findings sometimes elicit more shrugs than surprise. That’s arguably the case for U.S. smartphone and Wi-Fi adoption, which continues to grow unabated as evidenced in latest internet trends deck from ...
May 21, 2019	Debunking the ‘Gold Standard’ Myths in Edtech Efficacy	Imagine you’re in the market to buy a house. You’ve heard about various great neighborhoods from friends; at some point, you start dreaming about putting down roots, maybe even growing a family. You get an email or spot a description on the...
May 14, 2019	As Charters Face Growing Opposition, NewSchools Summit Makes Its Case	Each year, the invite-only NewSchools Summit spotlights the latest school models, leaders and technologies that aim to serve underrepresented students and communities. And for the past 21 years its organizer, the Oakland, Calif.-based nonpr...
Mar 29, 2019	Viacom-owned kids streaming service Noggin acquires educational app Sparkler	Viacom’s Nickelodeon is doubling down on the educational aspects of its preschooler-focused streaming service, Noggin, with the acquisition of the early childhood learning platform Sparkler. Announced on Friday, the deal will see Sparkler’s...
Aug 1, 2018	NewSchools Venture Fund to Invest in Innovative Schools and Diverse Leaders	NewSchools Venture Fund, an Oakland, Ca.-based edtech venture capital firm, announced that funding opportunities are now open for two investment areas: – Innovative Schools and – Diverse Leaders. For teams of educators and entrepreneurs who...
Nov 27, 2017	What Does It Take to Create Diverse Schools? Meet the Pioneers Making It Happen	Despite progress in integrating American schools following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, U.S. schools are less diverse today than in the 1960s. But as schools have grown more homogenous, ou...
Nov 27, 2017	What Does It Take to Create Diverse Schools? Meet the Pioneers Making It Happen	Despite progress in integrating American schools following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, U.S. schools are less diverse today than in the 1960s. But as schools have grown more homogenous, ou...
Oct 10, 2017	From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning	How do you find educators who want to completely rethink our notions of what a school is and design something entirely new? That was the question gnawing at Scott Benson two years ago when he ran into his friend—and fellow senior leader in ...
Aug 14, 2017	Early Learning Faces Obstacles and Inequities—Here's How Edtech Can Help	Remember the days when Farmer Eddie taught youngsters what the pig and cow says by pulling the See 'n Say string? Edtech for early learners has come a long way since then, but our just-released compilation of research—what we call a Ma...
Aug 4, 2017	NewSchools Venture Fund to Offer up to $8M in New Funding	NewSchools Venture Fund, an Oakland, Calif.-based education focused venture capital firm, is to offer up to $8m in new funding. Led by Stacey Childress, CEO, NewSchools finds, funds and supports teams of educators and entrepreneurs working ...
Aug 1, 2017	Have a Bold Idea for Education? Here's How to Apply for Funding from NewSchools	August is often a sleepy month, when many are focused on enjoying the last bit of summer before the busy fall season begins. But we’re hoping teams of educators and entrepreneurs with bold ideas in education will step away from their vacati...
May 17, 2017	Why Can’t We Be Friends? NewSchools Re-Stirs Debate on Race and Equity in Education Reform	Why can’t we be friends? That question wrapped up the closing session at the 2017 NewSchools Venture Fund Summit this week in Burlingame, Calif. Now in its 18th year, the event rekindled an uncomfortable conversation that started last year,...
May 17, 2017	Why Education Power Trumps Voice	Parents and kids. When was the last time you attended an education policy conference that put both kids and parents into the spotlight? Or tried to confront not-so-politically correct topics of race and politics in a way that stayed civil t...
May 3, 2017	Fusion: Bringing Personalized Learning Together	At its core, personalized learning means giving every student opportunities to learn in ways that connect and support them to the fullest extent possible. It’s a tall order—and scores of resources and organizations have emerged to help scho...
Mar 4, 2017	Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too	Edtech is a vital precursor to “work tech”—the tools that today’s students will need to leverage in college, career training and eventually the workplace. In an economy that is moving rapidly in the direction of more independent workers exe...
Mar 4, 2017	Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too	Edtech is a vital precursor to “work tech”—the tools that today’s students will need to leverage in college, career training and eventually the workplace. In an economy that is moving rapidly in the direction of more independent workers exe...
Nov 21, 2016	Revolution Foods plans aggressive retail expansion, on track to generate $130m in revenue in 2016	While many food start-ups gravitate towards snacks and beverages, Revolution Foods began right at the center of the plate, and was very clear about its mission from the outset, co-founder Kirsten Saenz Tobey told FoodNavigator-USA: “To tran...
Aug 5, 2016	New Schools Venture Fund Offering $7M More To Education Entrepreneurs	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints It’s still mid-summer, but in some districts where school starts in only a few weeks, teachers are already digging out their lesson plans and preparing to resume their classro...
Aug 1, 2016	NewSchools Venture Fund Looks to Fund Educators Reimagining Learning	Oakland, Calif.-based NewSchools Venture Fund is investing up to $7m in entrepreneurs and teams of educators who aim to reimagine learning. Led by Stacey Childress, CEO, the organization is focused on investments and support in three specif...
May 12, 2016	How It Takes a Village—and a Summit—to Redress Education Inequality	Gone were the tables where entrepreneurs with their Apple laptops and iPads showed off their edtech apps. In their place were students from east Los Angeles and other parts of the country sporting XQ School Project tee-shirts who spoke fran...
Mar 2, 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,...
Feb 16, 2016	NewSchools Ignite $1.5M edtech challenge aims to help kids at math	NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit venture firm split between offices in Oakland, Calif., and on R Street NW, is all about finding solutions to close the achievement gap in school learning. The firms latest focal point? Math. After speaki...
Feb 16, 2016	A New, No-Strings Funding Opportunity for Ed Tech Startups Focused on Middle and High Schools	Last summer, the 18-year-old, Oakland, Ca.-based philanthropic venture fund NewSchools Venture Fund decided to launch a virtual accelerator program that provides grants to founders whose tech is addressing languishing gaps in K12 education ...
Feb 16, 2016	For Grabs: $1.5M To Edtech Startups That Fill Math Learning Gaps	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints An edtech startup with a great idea to improve math instruction might find the competition pretty daunting by now. Crowds of math products are already vying with each other fo...
Nov 16, 2015	The Big, Big Problem with Current K-12 Investing	If public K-12 invested 2% of its national spending on research and development (R&D), that would total $12 billion every year. For perspective, Tesla, widely considered one of the world’s most innovative companies, raised approximately...
Oct 23, 2015	NewSchools Venture Fund spin-out Reach closes $53m fund	Reach Capital, a new firm spun off from New Schools Venture Fund earlier this year, has hit a $53m final close for its e
Oct 2, 2015	What the White House Press Corp Didn’t Ask About Arne Duncan’s Resignation	The 3:30pm ET press conference on October 2 was billed as “President Obama Makes a Personnel Announcement and Answers Questions.” The questions raised by the press, however, were not pertinent to the big news.For Further EdSurge Coverage: W...
Sep 3, 2015	Facebook Goes Back to School	Facebook is going to school. Not as in the “Facebook” page that just about everyone on the planet “likes.” Instead the company has created a tight partnership with California-based charter network, Summit Public Schools, to build a software...
Aug 3, 2015	NewSchools Launches EdTech Startup Accelerator	Oakland, CA-based thematic vc fund NewSchools has launched an education technology accelerator. NewSchools Ignite will support entrepreneurs tackling the most pressing gaps in K-12 education technology. Its first initiative, the Science Lea...
Jul 30, 2015	NewSchools Venture Fund Launches An Ed Tech Accelerator With A Focus on Science Learning	NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization that has backed more than 400 charter schools and educational technology for more than 15 years, has just opened a new startup accelerator with an initial focus on science. They’r...
May 6, 2015	NewSchools New New Thing	It was definitely a new NewSchools Venture Fund Summit this year. On May 6, more than a thousand educators, entrepreneurs and edtech enthusiasts came together for the 16th annual New Schools Venture Fund Summit. Gone were the high-profile s...
Apr 20, 2015	Socially Engaged Contributors: The Fifth Element of Personalized Learning	Riverside Unified’s journey towards Personalized Learning formally began in September of 2013 when we received the Next Generation Systems Initiative Planning Grant. As we began exploring the four core elements of personalized learning--a p...
Apr 7, 2015	Three Tips for Picking Personalized Learning Frameworks	You are a teacher, school leader, charter network or district administrator looking for guidance on how to design classrooms and schools for personalized learning. You’re not alone. Teams of educators all over the country are launching new ...
Mar 4, 2015	Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Proof	When the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) began hosting the iHub Pitch Games in 2014 in partnership with the NewSchools Venture Fund, the goals were simple: Find a way to bring teachers and developers of edtech together to share f...
Feb 26, 2015	Founders on a Mission	I’ve often repeated that the definition of entrepreneurship is “Insane perseverance in the face of complete resistance” (something I learned from my professor and mentor the late Jack Thorne). Put differently, there are some founders for wh...
Feb 25, 2015	Multiplying the ‘Teach to One’ Personalized Math Model at Elizabeth Public Schools	Funded by a $3 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant from the Department of Education, Elizabeth Public Schools, which educates 23,374 students in 33 schools in New Jersey, will expand its use of the Teach to One: Math model from two t...
Jan 30, 2015	DC's First Deputy Mayor of Ed and a Georgetown Professor Launched an Edtech Startup	D.C.'s first deputy mayor of education seems to be a fan of working in stealth mode given that he discretely founded an edtech startup without just about anyone knowing. Alongside Marguerite Roza, the director of Edunomics Lab at Georg...
Jan 26, 2015	NewSchools Spins Off New, For-Profit Venture Fund	NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) is not coy about its role in reforming education, starting with championing the charter school cause. “The charter school movement might look different today had it not been for NewSchools supporting these ent...
Jan 6, 2015	Where Are All the Venture Dollars Going in Ed-Tech?	The education technology industry is celebrating a record-breaking 2014, with companies having raised a collective $1.36 billion in the United States alone. Within that figure is another historic number, however — one symbolizing significan...
Dec 23, 2014	2014 US Edtech Funding Hits $1.36B	US edtech companies hit paydirt in 2014, raising $1.36B in 201 rounds from more than 386 unique investors, according to analysis by EdSurge. Yes, you read that right. Billion. With a “B.” How does $1.36B compare to edtech funding in years p...
Dec 22, 2014	A Closer Look at K12 Edtech Funding in 2014	Bolstered by a strong Q1 and Q3, venture investment in K12 education technology was up 32% in 2014 totaling $642 million. The top ten investments accounted for over half the funding, featuring large rounds in Desire2Learn, TeachersPayTeache...
Dec 4, 2014	Kaymbu Raises Funding from NewSchools Seed Fund	Kaymbu, a Cambridge, MA-based education solution that enables teachers to document and share visual learning moments from the classroom on iPad, raised funding from NewSchools Seed Fund. The amount of the round was not disclosed. The compan...
Sep 8, 2014	Where are K-12 Edtech Venture Backed Startups Based?	Advantageous location of a startup is no substitute for a great product or entrepreneur, but it may increase the odds of success. In edtech, early success for a startup often hinges on access to talent, early-stage funding, high-quality acc...
Sep 3, 2014	Sustainable Development Goes Massively Online As EdCast Launches With Sustainability Expert Jeffrey Sachs	In the spring of 2015 thousands of students from universities around the world will participate in online negotiations under the tutelage of Jeffrey Sachs to draft a comprehensive treaty on climate change, ahead of the Conference of Parties...
Aug 19, 2014	How NewSchools Picks Its Investments	Our Seed Fund supports high potential entrepreneurs developing technology solutions for the biggest challenges in K-12 education. We look for areas where the power of technology can improve our education system and its ability to maximize t...
Aug 15, 2014	FreshGrade Secures $4.3M in Seed Funding	FreshGrade, a Kelowna, BC, Canada-based edtech startup, secured $4.3m in seed funding. Backers included NewSchools Venture Fund, Emerson Collective, Accel Partners and The Social+Capital Partnership. The company intends to use the funds to ...
Jun 30, 2014	Strong (Math) Foundations	When I was an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon, I took a class in Linear Algebra. The class was taught by a visiting graduate student, not by a Carnegie Mellon professor. The instructor of this class was so bad that ever since taking that...
May 1, 2014	It’s Time To Talk About Race	This education conference was different--from who took the stage, to mix of conference goers, to the themes that dominated the day. At the heart of that difference was a clear-eyed recognition that race, poverty, and justice are imperative ...
Mar 4, 2014	co.lab Announces Second Cohort	co.lab, the edtech accelerator created by Zynga.org and NewSchools Venture Fund focused on developing innovative learning games, announced today a second cohort of companies for its four-month program. The batch includes: BrainQuake, which ...
Feb 21, 2014	Funding roundup - week ending 2/21/14	Elastica, Postmates, Outfittery, Socialbakers, TutorGroup, Intacct, Hampton Creek, Siemens, Hubub Seed stage FireLayers, a provider of security solutions for companies’ cloud applications and data, received an undisclosed amount of funding ...
Feb 20, 2014	Education tech-focused New Schools Seed Fund closes on $12m target	High-impact education technology-focused New Schools Seed Fund has hit its $12m target. The fund is one of the most acti
Feb 20, 2014	NewSchools Closes $12M Seed Fund	NewSchools, an Oakland, Calif.-based a nonprofit venture philanthropy firm which invests in high-impact education technology entrepreneurs focused on K-12, closed a $12m seed fund. Led by Jennifer Carolan, managing director, NewSchools Seed...
Feb 19, 2014	Funding Daily: February 19, 2014	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Here are the day’s funding stories: Union Square ...
Feb 16, 2014	51 Questions Any Edtech Entrepreneur Must Answer	Any education entrepreneur knows that answering a barrage of questions is a daily given--whether it's from parents, teachers and administrators, or investors, judges and journalists. In January, NewSchools Venture Fund and Silicon Vall...
Feb 4, 2014	Silicon Valley Launches New Innovation Zone	Silicon Valley schools and entrepreneurs have been collaborating informally for years. And even though these schools are constantly peppered with requests to pilot products, many still see the schools as behind the innovation curve. “In our...
Jan 16, 2014	Tales2Go Raises $750K in Funding	Tales2Go Inc., a Bethesda, MD-based provider of audio books for early childhood programs and primary schools, raised $750k in funding. The round was co-led by NewSchools Venture Fund and the Maryland Venture Fund (MVF), the venture arm of t...
Dec 23, 2013	Jennifer Carolan: "Edtech K-12 Investments Up 6% This Year"	Venture investment in K12 education technology was up 6% in 2013, totaling $452 million. Over half of these investments were seed stage transactions mirroring the overall venture trend of increased financing from non-traditional sources (an...
Oct 23, 2013	NewSchools CEO Ted Mitchell Tapped For Dept of Ed Job	Here's the word on the street of Washington, DC: NewSchools Venture Fund chief executive, Ted Mitchell, will be named by the Obama administration for a top-ranking job at the Department of Education, possibly as Under Secretary of Educ...
Oct 11, 2013	Newsela gets $1.2M to bring daily news & personalized learning to kids	Newsela is a website with hundreds of news articles targeted to schoolchildren, and it has raised $1.2 million in venture financing to bring even more information to kids. Remember when you were at school and learning to read or master a ne...
Oct 11, 2013	Newsela Raises $1.2M in Seed Funding	Newsela, a NYC-based online platform to help students master reading and critical thinking, raised $1.2m in seed funding. The round was led by New Schools Venture Fund and Kapor Capital, with participation from Kaplan Ventures, Silicon Badi...
Sep 27, 2013	A Call To Educators and Edtech - Get Connected	Being “connected” gets tossed around a lot these days, usually referring to educators connecting to other educators through social media. But “connection” isn’t just about educator-to-educator development. Another imperative connection must...
Sep 10, 2013	Announcing the EdSurge Tech for Schools Summit: Silicon Valley 2013	Edtech communities around the U.S. are cutting to the chase when it comes to connecting entrepreneurs and educators. Back in July, we went to Chicago for the Education Technology Startup Collaborative to observe how teachers and techies can...
Jun 25, 2013	Take The Money Or Go It Alone?	Bringing together two sides of the funding debate--to take the VC money or go it alone--EdSurge’s Betsy Corcoran facilitated a lively discussion Thursday night between co-founder of Wikispaces and bootstrapper extraordinaire James Byers, an...
May 29, 2013	Mapping the Edtech Market	European explorers reveled in their versions of a mappa mundi, or map of the world.Such representations were worse navigation aids than Apple maps on a bad day--but marvelous pictorial representations of relationships and principles. When t...
May 5, 2013	Zynga.org Teams Up with NewSchools Venture Fund to Create Ed-Tech Accelerator	According the the company’s blog (read here), Zynga.org is partnering with NewSchools Venture Fund to create a new ed-tech accelerator. The initiative, which will officially kick off this summer, will focus on enhancing the quality and reac...
May 5, 2013	NewSchools Venture Fund to address shortage of ed-tech capital	Selling technology to schools is still a formidable task, but it’s a far less expensive and extended process than it used to be. And because of this friendlier climate, we’re seeing the second wave of education technology tools and a surge ...
May 1, 2013	U.S. Education Secretary’s stern challenge to entrepreneurs: ‘We have so far to go’	BURLINGAME, Calif. — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke frankly to a roomful of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors about the state of the nation’s education system. At the NewSchools Summit this afternoon, the former head of...
May 1, 2013	Khan Academy CEO: Education in 2028 won’t be about ‘sitting passively & not questioning authority’	BURLINGAME, Calif: Salman Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, spoke this morning at the NewSchools Venture Summit on his vision for education in 2028. Khan drew a terrifying comparison between factory workers on the assembly line, who mo...
May 1, 2013	Rethink Education to Share Profits with NewSchools Venture Fund	NewSchools Venture Fund likes to do things differently, from being an early funder of charter schools to jumpstarting edtech investing. Now it's come up with a new way to bolster its coffers through an innovative deal with venture firm...
Apr 30, 2013	NewSchools Summit 2013 - LIVE on May 1st	Wednesday, May 1, 8:00am - 5:30pm (PT) 8:00am - 9:15am A Conversation with Tom Friedman 9:15am - 9:30am Learning in 2028: Sal Khan 9:30am - 10:00am EdSurge chat: Alex Grodd (BetterLesson) 10:00am - 10:30am EdSurge chat: Alix Guerrier (Learn...
Apr 30, 2013	Education Elements Retools	Predicting the tempo of an emerging market--especially how fast it moves and what customers will be willing to pay--is hard. Just ask Education Elements. Last week, the San Carlos-based startup company, which has been a leader in helping sc...
Apr 15, 2013	Tynker Raises $3.2M in Funding	Tynker, a Mountain View, CA-based computing platform designed to teach children computational thinking and programming skills, has launched with approximately $3.2m in funding. Backers included New Enterprise Associates, 500 Startups, NewSc...
Apr 12, 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...
Apr 2, 2013	A Radically Practical Vision of Education	Editor's Note: As we scramble to adjust or contest changes to education on a daily basis, it's hard to keep focus on the "big picture." Here's one snapshot of what the future of learning could look like, circa 2025....
Mar 4, 2013	Why This $100 Million Student Information Database Is 'A Godsend' For Education Startups	Instagram/iebusiness The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently led a $100 million investment into a controversial project that will collect and sell student information. Startups and educators are excited. Parents, on the other hand,...
Feb 19, 2013	Test Prep Giant Kaplan Launches A New EdTech Accelerator In NYC, With TechStars Providing The Bankroll	With early-stage capital front-loading the EdTech investment spectrum, it’s a good time to start an education business. (Even if investors are still wary about doling out larger rounds, but ssshhh on that bit.) Of course, when it comes to e...
Nov 14, 2012	Edtech Investors Share Tips on How To Get Funded	They say money draws a crowd. And it surely did on Monday (Nov. 12) when over 200 packed the house at NestGSV for a conversation with three leading edtech investors: Alan Louie (Imagine K12), Jennifer Carolan (NewSchools Venture Fund), and ...
Oct 21, 2012	Goalbook Raises $915K in Funding	Goalbook, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of a platform for schools to manage and collaborate around student Individual Learning Plans (ILPs), has raised $915k in funding. The round was led by NewSchools Venture Fund, which injected $200k, w...
Oct 4, 2012	What it Takes to be a Teacherpreneur	Entrepreneurial guru Eric Reis put it something like this: Centuries from now people will laugh about entrepreneurship today, the way we laugh at other industries and processes that were getting their start a century ago. What we know of en...
Sep 5, 2012	Laurene Powell Jobs, Widow Of Steve Jobs, Is Joining Stanford University’s Board Of Trustees	Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of visionary Apple co-founder and CEO, the late Steve Jobs, is joining the board of trustees of Stanford University. She has been elected for a five-year term that will begin on October 1. The move continues her a...
Sep 4, 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...
Aug 31, 2012	Anticipating a Blended Classroom Boom Led by Education Startups	As kids head back to school this month and next, some will find a rather new arrangement greeting them: blended classrooms. These don’t feel like the ways that many of us attended class, with a single teacher lecturing at students from fron...
Aug 29, 2012	EdSurge Nabs $400K From Washington Post, NewSchools To Be A Resource For All Things EdTech	When I decided to begin covering the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship and education more seriously, my first goal was to seek out the best resources, or community watering holes, for edtech information. Anyone who has embarked o...
Aug 29, 2012	EdSurge Raises $400K in Seed Funding	EdSurge, a news source on education technology, has raised $400k in seed funding. Backers include Washington Post Co., NewSchools Venture Fund, and angel investors Allen & Co. executives Nancy Peretsman and Gillian Munson, O’Reilly Medi...
Aug 29, 2012	Washington Post, NewSchools Venture Fund Back EdSurge	BURLINGAME, Calif., Aug. 29: EdSurge, the leading news source on education technology, announced that it has closed a $400,000 seed-funding round with leading institutional and angel investors in Washington D.C., New York and Silicon Valley...
Aug 17, 2012	Educreations Closes $2.2M Series A Funding	Educreations, a Palo Alto, CA-based developer of a mobile learning platform, has closed a $2.2m Series A funding. Backers include Accel Partners, NewSchools Venture Fund, Matthew Greenfield, Tabreez Verjee, David Popowitz and Julia Popowitz...
Aug 14, 2012	Educreations Grabs $2.2M From Accel, NewSchools To Turn Your iPad Into Your Classroom	Khan Academy has attracted the attention of millions of students and parents (and has even impressed Bill Gates) by flipping the traditional classroom and homework model on its head with videos on a variety of academic subjects. While it’s ...
Jun 25, 2012	Resetting Education: How tech is changing the paradigm	U.S. schools are struggling, and Silicon Valley is emerging as an unlikely hero Every day in the United States, 7,200 students drop out of high school. That adds up to 1.3 million a year. Dropout rates are even higher among certain minority...
Feb 16, 2011	Adopting an innovator’s state of mind to save healthcare	By Nurjana Bachman You’ll almost never hear innovators say, ‘Can we do something?’ You will sometimes hear them say, ‘How can we do something?’ I heard this message this month from Kim Smith, a founding team member of Teach For America and ...
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