Education Entrepreneurs: Joel Rose & Chris Rush
Joel Rose and Chris Rush launched the first School of One program in New York City in 2009 at…
DC to VC: Boston
There is a fast growing ecosystem of early-stage ventures focused on education. However, for those ventures working in and…
Rethinking the for-profit model
By Jordan Meranus in NewSchools Ventures onFor many years, for-profit education organizations have faced fairly pervasive skepticism. Why? In part, you can blame the very…
Turn around a failing school, or start a new one? Yes.
By Jordan Meranus in Uncategorized onIn 2005, Shoemaker Middle School in tough west Philadelphia was a place the police knew too well. Its violence…