Overview
Location
United States, California, Redwood City
Employees
501-1000
Total raised
$3M
Founded date
2007
Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 18
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| Sep 30, 2016 | How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models | This profile is part of an EdSurge Research Guide about school redesign and the landscape of service provider organizations that support schools and districts throughout the process. The full guide includes a report highlighting trends, ins... |
| Aug 3, 2015 | Blended Learning Leaders Are Over the Honeymoon—and Rolling Up Their Sleeves | This summer, I spoke to leaders at six public charter school networks who are now wily veterans in the art of blending teacher-led instruction with online learning--also known as “blended learning”. Their titles range from Innovation Manage... |
| Sep 8, 2014 | The Adaptive Learning App that John Danner Left Rocketship to Build | Many former teachers leave the classroom to start edtech companies. Just take a look at BetterLesson, eduClipper, and SmarterCookie to, name a few. What’s rare is when a co-founder and CEO of one of the world’s most well-known charter schoo... |
| Aug 13, 2014 | What a Peruvian School Designed by IDEO Looks Like | What happens when a billionaire, an ex-engineer, and an IDEO design team get together to build a school system in Peru? From the outside, it looks something like this: Step inside, and you’ll see bright colors and flexible space. Students e... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | Disrupting Education to Create a Highly Skilled Workforce | By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Jun 24, 2014 | Silicon Valley and the Edtech Revolution | Silicon Valley holds a certain mystique among entrepreneurs and investors. Here, more cool technology was born, more wealth created, and more technology revolutions begun, than anywhere else on the planet. The Valley’s formula for success h... |
| May 23, 2014 | How Blended Learning Leaders Choose What to Use | What happens when you ask a private Catholic school, a public district, and out-of-the-box schools like Rocketship and AltSchool what the word "blended" actually means? You get different definitions that vary based on the needs of... |
| May 21, 2014 | The Scorecard on Blended Learning | In the last two years, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded $383 million in Race to the Top competition funds to districts implementing blended learning models. But amid the models of success, “how to” guides, and lessons learned, o... |
| May 13, 2014 | BetterLesson’s Plan for Better Blended Lessons | Six years since the publication of Disrupting Class and Rocketship’s first learning labs, the body of knowledge for individual teachers around blended learning is still quite limited. While the internet is exploding with loads of resources ... |
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FAQ about Rocketship Education
When was Rocketship Education founded?
Rocketship Education was founded in 2007.
How much funding has Rocketship Education raised?
Rocketship Education has raised $3M in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about Rocketship Education?
Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning Rocketship Education, among them “How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models” (Sep 30, 2016) and “Blended Learning Leaders Are Over the Honeymoon—and Rolling Up Their Sleeves” (Aug 3, 2015).
Is Rocketship Education still active?
Rocketship Education is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 30, 2016.