Our Ventures
To learn more about NewSchools' portfolio ventures, scroll down the list below and click on their icons to reach their Web sites. You can also filter these organizations by type, the NewSchools Fund they were included in, and their geographic location. To learn about job openings at our ventures, click here.
Aspire Public Schools
Aspire Public Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in 1999 to serve California students in grade K-12. Aspire believes that college prep begins in kindergarten and creates rigorous and thoughtful curriculum that meets this need for students.
GreatSchools
GreatSchools was founded in 1999 and operates a national Web site www.greatschools.net that helps parents evaluate K-12 schools and find the information they need to help their child succeed.
LearnNow
LearnNow is a for-profit charter management organization that was founded in 1999 to create a network of schools with a focus on math, science and technology skills for low-income children. LearnNow was acquired by Edison schools in 2001.
Success for All
Success for All is an intensive reading program and comprehensive school reform model that achieves proven results in under-resourced urban schools.
Teachscape
Teachscape provides professional development programs to teachers, principals, and school leaders. Founded in 1999 as a for-profit company, Teachscape seeks to to help educators become more effective at raising the academic achievement of their students.
Carnegie Learning
Carnegie Learning is a leading for-profit provider of research-based mathematics curricula for middle and high school students. Carnegie Learning offers innovative suite of curricula and tutoring products based on cognitive psychology research at Carnegie Mellon University and developed by experienced math teachers.
High Tech High (HTH)
High Tech High (HTH) is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in California in 1999. HTH supports innovative K-12 public charter schools where all students develop the academic, workplace, and citizenship skills for postsecondary success.
New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS)
New leaders for New Schools (NLNS) was founded in 2000 on a simple premise: great schools are led by great principals. NLNS is a nonprofit that recruits talented individuals with strong leadership potential – both from within and outside of school districts – and trains them to become outstanding urban school principals.
Teach For America (TFA)
Teach For America (TFA) was founded in 1990 with the mission of enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the movement to eliminate educational inequality. TFA recruits recent college graduates who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools in our nation's lowest-income communities.