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See below for the latest news articles about NewSchools Venture Fund's work.

  • NewSchools Launches $100M Innovation Fund
    by Michele McNeil, Education Week Original Article

    August 6, 2010 -- In its biggest effort yet to influence education reform, the San Francisco-based NewSchools Venture Fund is launching its fourth fund, a $100 million investment to spur innovation in teacher preparation, school turnarounds, and charter-school management.

  • The Hard Work of Innovation
    by Eliza Krigman, National JournalOriginal Article

    July 31, 2010 Over the next several years, approximately $1 billion will be spent on innovation in education through federal grant programs, nonprofits, and community organizations. Helping to spearhead this effort in the nonprofit sector is the NewSchools Venture Fund, a philanthropy dedicated to improving public education by ensuring that all children, particularly those in underserved communities, have the opportunity to succeed.

  • Opinion: Common Educational Standards for Common Good
    by Ted Mitchell of NewSchools Venture FundOriginal Article

    Strong academic content standards are critical to ensuring that all students, no matter where they live, are prepared for success in post-secondary education and the workforce. Standards do not tell teachers how to teach, but they do help teachers determine what their students need to know and when. Standards help students, teachers and parents by setting clear and realistic goals for success.

  • Carnegie Corporation gives $10 million for education reform
    by Byron ButlerOriginal Article

    The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced $10 million in grants to be used in the development and implementation of new elementary, secondary and post-secondary school designs and systems. The grants are part of the corporation’s larger effort to support designs that address the weaknesses in the U.S. education system – such as poorly designed curricula, isolation from external resources, understaffed schools, incoherent management systems and entrenched school models that stifle innovation.

  • Education inventors get boost under new programs
    by Kathy MathesonOriginal Article

    PHILADELPHIA -- A movement is under way to make it easier for entrepreneurs to navigate the lucrative and sometimes-tricky education market and introduce new technology and products into classrooms. An educator at the University of Pennsylvania wants to create one of the nation's only business incubators dedicated to education entrepreneurs. The U.S. Department of Education is also getting into the act with a $650 million fund to boost education innovation.

  • A New Take on Teaching (video)
    As seen on World BusinessOriginal Article

    April 22, 2010 — World Business: These days the word entrepreneur usually conjures up images of tech start ups and small businesses. However in the USA, a new type of entrepreneur has arisen over the past decade whose goal is to transform an ailing education system.

  • Federal Windfall for Education Must Spur Grant Makers to Act and Innovate
    By Jonathan Schorr and April ChouOriginal Article

    May 2, 2010 - Over the coming months, the federal government will take unprecedented steps to foster innovation in education and other areas that affect the lives of people in low-income neighborhoods. The goal of those efforts is to bring effective new ideas to the places where they are needed most urgently. The flow of new government money will have an additional significant effect: a jolt of demand for rapid action by private grant makers.

  • Opinion: California needs 'Race to the Top' funds
    By Ted Mitchell, CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund

    The 'Race to the Top' fund is too advantageous to ignore, the state's Board of Education president says. That means tying teacher evaluation to student performance, and that's a good idea. September 15, 2009 -- California soon must decide whether to make dramatic changes and lead the nation in education reform or -- if it can't or won't change -- be dragged along as other states show what bold change looks like. That's the message U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered to a California audience this summer.

  • Duncan's Call for School Turnarounds Sparks Debate
    As seen in Education WeekOriginal Article

    The U.S. secretary of education’s call to “turn around” the nation’s 5,000 worst-performing schools has found a warm welcome among educators and policymakers who see that focus as long overdue. But it has also sparked debate about how—and whether—such an enormous leadership and management challenge can be accomplished.

  • Opinion: Innovation will drive new federal funding for education
    By Ted Mitchell and Reed Hastings (for the San Jose Mercury News)Original Article

    The passage of the stimulus bill last week instantly doubled the federal role in funding schools, with an unprecedented influx of $95 billion. The question is, in education, what will that money buy? Most of the answer is jobs: fewer pink slips for teachers, and dirt finally moving on long-stalled construction projects. Yet in a welcome and farsighted move, the Recovery Act not only shores up the system, it also invests in fixing it where it's broken.