| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 05.10.2023 | The Incredible Education Journey Of David Heiber, Concentric... | The leadership team at Concentric Education. which announced a $5 million equity investment. Concent... | forbes.com... |
| 22.02.2021 | Elise Smith, CEO Of Praxis Labs, Raises $3.2 Million In Vent... | Elise Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, Praxis Labs Photo credit: Brandon Appleton
In the wake of massiv... | forbes.com... |
| 09.02.2021 | How Systems And States Can Encourage More And Better Project... | Napa Junction Elementary, a New Tech Network school Tom Vander Ark
Project-based learning is on the... | forbes.com... |
| 08.02.2021 | 4 Ways To Change How Schools Serve Black Students | getty
“Do Black Lives Matter in Education Reform?” This question was the title of a viral Medium po... | forbes.com... |
| 13.01.2021 | What’s The EdTech Vaccine? 10 Design Principles | EdTech Photo by Julia M Cameron from Pexels
Pandemic education made clear the need for learning pla... | forbes.com... |
| 28.03.2020 | 65% Of Teachers Used EdTech Every Day In 2019. Here’s Why Th... | Suddenly, the nation’s living rooms and kitchen tables are the center of learning for most of Americ... | forbes.com... |
| 24.09.2019 | 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 inf... | edsurge.co... |
| 11.09.2019 | Not Just Classroom Supplies: Teachers Also Buy Edtech With T... | When new trends become the norm, report findings sometimes elicit more shrugs than surprise. That’s ... | edsurge.co... |
| 21.05.2019 | 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 fri... | edsurge.co... |
| 14.05.2019 | As Charters Face Growing Opposition, NewSchools Summit Makes... | Each year, the invite-only NewSchools Summit spotlights the latest school models, leaders and techno... | edsurge.co... |
| 29.03.2019 | Viacom-owned kids streaming service Noggin acquires educatio... | Viacom’s Nickelodeon is doubling down on the educational aspects of its preschooler-focused streamin... | techcrunch... |
| 01.08.2018 | NewSchools Venture Fund to Invest in Innovative Schools and ... | NewSchools Venture Fund, an Oakland, Ca.-based edtech venture capital firm, announced that funding o... | finsmes.co... |
| 27.11.2017 | What Does It Take to Create Diverse Schools? Meet the Pione... | Despite progress in integrating American schools following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in... | edsurge.co... |
| 27.11.2017 | What Does It Take to Create Diverse Schools? Meet the Pionee... | Despite progress in integrating American schools following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in... | edsurge.co... |
| 10.10.2017 | From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Coh... | How do you find educators who want to completely rethink our notions of what a school is and design ... | edsurge.co... |
| 14.08.2017 | Early Learning Faces Obstacles and Inequities—Here's How Edt... | Remember the days when Farmer Eddie taught youngsters what the pig and cow says by pulling the See '... | edsurge.co... |
| 04.08.2017 | 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 offe... | finsmes.co... |
| 01.08.2017 | Have a Bold Idea for Education? Here's How to Apply for Fund... | August is often a sleepy month, when many are focused on enjoying the last bit of summer before the ... | edsurge.co... |
| 17.05.2017 | Why Education Power Trumps Voice | Parents and kids. When was the last time you attended an education policy conference that put both k... | edsurge.co... |
| 17.05.2017 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? NewSchools Re-Stirs Debate on Race ... | Why can’t we be friends? That question wrapped up the closing session at the 2017 NewSchools Venture... | edsurge.co... |
| 03.05.2017 | Fusion: Bringing Personalized Learning Together | At its core, personalized learning means giving every student opportunities to learn in ways that co... | edsurge.co... |
| 04.03.2017 | Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sur... | Edtech is a vital precursor to “work tech”—the tools that today’s students will need to leverage in ... | edsurge.co... |
| 04.03.2017 | Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Su... | Edtech is a vital precursor to “work tech”—the tools that today’s students will need to leverage in ... | edsurge.co... |
| 21.11.2016 | Revolution Foods plans aggressive retail expansion, on track... | While many food start-ups gravitate towards snacks and beverages, Revolution Foods began right at th... | foodnaviga... |
| 05.08.2016 | New Schools Venture Fund Offering $7M More To Education Entr... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s still mid-summer, but in some... | xconomy.co... |
| 01.08.2016 | NewSchools Venture Fund Looks to Fund Educators Reimagining ... | Oakland, Calif.-based NewSchools Venture Fund is investing up to $7m in entrepreneurs and teams of e... | finsmes.co... |
| 12.05.2016 | How It Takes a Village—and a Summit—to Redress Education Ine... | Gone were the tables where entrepreneurs with their Apple laptops and iPads showed off their edtech ... | 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... |
| 16.02.2016 | NewSchools Ignite $1.5M edtech challenge aims to help kids a... | NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit venture firm split between offices in Oakland, Calif., and on R... | technical.... |
| 16.02.2016 | A New, No-Strings Funding Opportunity for Ed Tech Startups F... | Last summer, the 18-year-old, Oakland, Ca.-based philanthropic venture fund NewSchools Venture Fund ... | techcrunch... |
| 16.02.2016 | For Grabs: $1.5M To Edtech Startups That Fill Math Learning ... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
An edtech startup with a great ide... | xconomy.co... |
| 16.11.2015 | 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 woul... | edsurge.co... |
| 23.10.2015 | 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 f... | altassets.... |
| 02.10.2015 | What the White House Press Corp Didn’t Ask About Arne Duncan... | The 3:30pm ET press conference on October 2 was billed as “President Obama Makes a Personnel Announc... | edsurge.co... |
| 03.09.2015 | Facebook Goes Back to School | Facebook is going to school. Not as in the “Facebook” page that just about everyone on the planet “l... | edsurge.co... |
| 03.08.2015 | NewSchools Launches EdTech Startup Accelerator | Oakland, CA-based thematic vc fund NewSchools has launched an education technology accelerator.
New... | finsmes.co... |
| 30.07.2015 | NewSchools Venture Fund Launches An Ed Tech Accelerator With... | NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization that has backed more than 400 charter s... | techcrunch... |
| 06.05.2015 | NewSchools New New Thing | It was definitely a new NewSchools Venture Fund Summit this year.
On May 6, more than a thousand ed... | edsurge.co... |
| 20.04.2015 | Socially Engaged Contributors: The Fifth Element of Personal... | Riverside Unified’s journey towards Personalized Learning formally began in September of 2013 when w... | edsurge.co... |
| 07.04.2015 | Three Tips for Picking Personalized Learning Frameworks | You are a teacher, school leader, charter network or district administrator looking for guidance on ... | edsurge.co... |
| 04.03.2015 | Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Proof | When the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) began hosting the iHub Pitch Games in 2014 in pa... | edsurge.co... |
| 26.02.2015 | Founders on a Mission | I’ve often repeated that the definition of entrepreneurship is “Insane perseverance in the face of c... | k9ventures... |
| 25.02.2015 | Multiplying the ‘Teach to One’ Personalized Math Model at El... | Funded by a $3 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant from the Department of Education, Elizabet... | edsurge.co... |
| 30.01.2015 | DC's First Deputy Mayor of Ed and a Georgetown Professor Lau... | D.C.'s first deputy mayor of education seems to be a fan of working in stealth mode given that he di... | bizjournal... |
| 26.01.2015 | NewSchools Spins Off New, For-Profit Venture Fund | NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) is not coy about its role in reforming education, starting with champ... | edsurge.co... |
| 06.01.2015 | Where Are All the Venture Dollars Going in Ed-Tech? | The education technology industry is celebrating a record-breaking 2014, with companies having raise... | bizjournal... |
| 23.12.2014 | 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 inve... | edsurge.co... |
| 22.12.2014 | 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 t... | edsurge.co... |
| 04.12.2014 | Kaymbu Raises Funding from NewSchools Seed Fund | Kaymbu, a Cambridge, MA-based education solution that enables teachers to document and share visual ... | finsmes.co... |
| 08.09.2014 | 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 ... | edsurge.co... |
| 03.09.2014 | Sustainable Development Goes Massively Online As EdCast Laun... | In the spring of 2015 thousands of students from universities around the world will participate in o... | techcrunch... |
| 19.08.2014 | How NewSchools Picks Its Investments | Our Seed Fund supports high potential entrepreneurs developing technology solutions for the biggest ... | edsurge.co... |
| 15.08.2014 | FreshGrade Secures $4.3M in Seed Funding | FreshGrade, a Kelowna, BC, Canada-based edtech startup, secured $4.3m in seed funding.
Backers incl... | finsmes.co... |
| 30.06.2014 | Strong (Math) Foundations | When I was an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon, I took a class in Linear Algebra. The class was taug... | k9ventures... |
| 01.05.2014 | It’s Time To Talk About Race | This education conference was different--from who took the stage, to mix of conference goers, to the... | edsurge.co... |
| 04.03.2014 | co.lab Announces Second Cohort | co.lab, the edtech accelerator created by Zynga.org and NewSchools Venture Fund focused on developin... | finsmes.co... |
| 21.02.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/21/14 | Elastica, Postmates, Outfittery, Socialbakers, TutorGroup, Intacct, Hampton Creek, Siemens, Hubub
S... | vator.tv/n... |
| 20.02.2014 | Education tech-focused New Schools Seed Fund closes on $12m ... | High-impact education technology-focused New Schools Seed Fund has hit its $12m target. The fund is ... | altassets.... |
| 20.02.2014 | NewSchools Closes $12M Seed Fund | NewSchools, an Oakland, Calif.-based a nonprofit venture philanthropy firm which invests in high-imp... | finsmes.co... |
| 19.02.2014 | Funding Daily: February 19, 2014 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 16.02.2014 | 51 Questions Any Edtech Entrepreneur Must Answer | Any education entrepreneur knows that answering a barrage of questions is a daily given--whether it'... | edsurge.co... |
| 04.02.2014 | Silicon Valley Launches New Innovation Zone | Silicon Valley schools and entrepreneurs have been collaborating informally for years. And even thou... | edsurge.co... |
| 16.01.2014 | Tales2Go Raises $750K in Funding | Tales2Go Inc., a Bethesda, MD-based provider of audio books for early childhood programs and primary... | finsmes.co... |
| 23.12.2013 | Jennifer Carolan: "Edtech K-12 Investments Up 6% This Y... | Venture investment in K12 education technology was up 6% in 2013, totaling $452 million. Over half o... | edsurge.co... |
| 23.10.2013 | 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 Mitche... | edsurge.co... |
| 11.10.2013 | Newsela gets $1.2M to bring daily news & personalized le... | Newsela is a website with hundreds of news articles targeted to schoolchildren, and it has raised $1... | venturebea... |
| 11.10.2013 | Newsela Raises $1.2M in Seed Funding | Newsela, a NYC-based online platform to help students master reading and critical thinking, raised $... | finsmes.co... |
| 27.09.2013 | A Call To Educators and Edtech - Get Connected | Being “connected” gets tossed around a lot these days, usually referring to educators connecting to ... | edsurge.co... |
| 10.09.2013 | Announcing the EdSurge Tech for Schools Summit: Silicon Vall... | Edtech communities around the U.S. are cutting to the chase when it comes to connecting entrepreneur... | edsurge.co... |
| 25.06.2013 | 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 Be... | edsurge.co... |
| 29.05.2013 | Mapping the Edtech Market | European explorers reveled in their versions of a mappa mundi, or map of the world.Such representati... | edsurge.co... |
| 05.05.2013 | Zynga.org Teams Up with NewSchools Venture Fund to Create Ed... | According the the company’s blog (read here), Zynga.org is partnering with NewSchools Venture Fund t... | finsmes.co... |
| 05.05.2013 | NewSchools Venture Fund to address shortage of ed-tech capit... | Selling technology to schools is still a formidable task, but it’s a far less expensive and extended... | venturebea... |
| 01.05.2013 | U.S. Education Secretary’s stern challenge to entrepreneurs:... | BURLINGAME, Calif. — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke frankly to a roomful of Silicon Vall... | venturebea... |
| 01.05.2013 | Khan Academy CEO: Education in 2028 won’t be about ‘sitting ... | BURLINGAME, Calif: Salman Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, spoke this morning at the NewSchool... | venturebea... |
| 01.05.2013 | Rethink Education to Share Profits with NewSchools Venture F... | NewSchools Venture Fund likes to do things differently, from being an early funder of charter school... | edsurge.co... |
| 30.04.2013 | 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... | edsurge.co... |
| 30.04.2013 | Education Elements Retools | Predicting the tempo of an emerging market--especially how fast it moves and what customers will be ... | edsurge.co... |
| 15.04.2013 | Tynker Raises $3.2M in Funding | Tynker, a Mountain View, CA-based computing platform designed to teach children computational thinki... | finsmes.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... |
| 02.04.2013 | 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 ... | edsurge.co... |
| 04.03.2013 | Why This $100 Million Student Information Database Is 'A God... | Instagram/iebusiness The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently led a $100 million investment ... | businessin... |
| 19.02.2013 | Test Prep Giant Kaplan Launches A New EdTech Accelerator In ... | With early-stage capital front-loading the EdTech investment spectrum, it’s a good time to start an ... | techcrunch... |
| 14.11.2012 | 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 a... | edsurge.co... |
| 21.10.2012 | Goalbook Raises $915K in Funding | Goalbook, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of a platform for schools to manage and collaborate around ... | finsmes.co... |
| 04.10.2012 | What it Takes to be a Teacherpreneur | Entrepreneurial guru Eric Reis put it something like this: Centuries from now people will laugh abou... | edsurge.co... |
| 05.09.2012 | Laurene Powell Jobs, Widow Of Steve Jobs, Is Joining Stanfor... | Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of visionary Apple co-founder and CEO, the late Steve Jobs, is joining th... | 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... |
| 31.08.2012 | Anticipating a Blended Classroom Boom Led by Education Start... | As kids head back to school this month and next, some will find a rather new arrangement greeting th... | techcrunch... |
| 29.08.2012 | EdSurge Nabs $400K From Washington Post, NewSchools To Be A ... | When I decided to begin covering the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship and education more... | techcrunch... |
| 29.08.2012 | EdSurge Raises $400K in Seed Funding | EdSurge, a news source on education technology, has raised $400k in seed funding.
Backers include W... | finsmes.co... |
| 29.08.2012 | Washington Post, NewSchools Venture Fund Back EdSurge | BURLINGAME, Calif., Aug. 29: EdSurge, the leading news source on education technology, announced tha... | edsurge.co... |
| 17.08.2012 | Educreations Closes $2.2M Series A Funding | Educreations, a Palo Alto, CA-based developer of a mobile learning platform, has closed a $2.2m Seri... | finsmes.co... |
| 14.08.2012 | Educreations Grabs $2.2M From Accel, NewSchools To Turn Your... | Khan Academy has attracted the attention of millions of students and parents (and has even impressed... | techcrunch... |
| 25.06.2012 | 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 Un... | vator.tv/n... |
| 16.02.2011 | 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 sometim... | massdevice... |
| 15.12.2009 | New BioCrossroads venture fund raises $58 million | - | ibj.com/ar... |
| - | Project: NewSchools’ Ignite Works to Build Gap-Closing Produ... | NewSchools Ignite, a project of NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF), is a virtual accelerator program tha... | edsurge.co... |
| - | 17 profitable businesses for entrepreneurs right now, despit... | Half of Americans want more local businesses like restaurants, coffee shops, and grocery stores in t... | businessin... |
| - | Resource: BLU, LearnLaunch, NewSchools, TED-Ed, Usable Knowl... | BLU
The Blended Learning Universe, or BLU_, developed by the Clayton Christensen Institute, is an o... | edsurge.co... |
