Celebrating Education Entrepreneurs in Video
Education entrepreneurs are as diverse as the communities they serve. This week we continue our celebration of these passionate social innovators by featuring three entrepreneurs that are making a difference in lives of children in ways often overlooked by education reformers. During the life of our second fund (2002-2006), NewSchools identified an important need in […]
Hacking Education: Detroit
As someone with family ties in the area, I’m constantly challenged by the majority of stories about Michigan. But, it’s not hard to see why Detroit is so frequently used as the poster city of our collective economic straits. Inner city blight, the exodus of college graduates, deep cuts in social services, and a shocking […]
NewSchools CEO Ted Mitchell: My Best Idea For K-12 Education
America’s school system is broken. On that the Forbes 400 can agree. America’s richest men and women give more to education-related causes than to any other issue. But in terms of how best to improve education, there is less consensus. Education-related causes that have benefited from the Forbes 400 wealth vary widely: Mark Zuckerberg donated $100 million […]
‘Hacking Education’ Dinner Series Announces Detroit Event
The event brings together entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and educators to leverage innovation to improve public education San Francisco, CA – September 13, 2011 – NewSchools Venture Fund joins Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and the University of Michigan’s Social Venture Fund to sponsor a ‘Hacking Education’ Dinner in Detroit, Michigan on September 16. Founded by Jon Bischke of […]
The Intersection of Technology and Test Scores
“In Classroom of the Future, Stagnant Scores” blared the headline in New York Times on September 4th. The paper’s editors decided that the top-of-the-fold story on Page 1 also warranted two full pages inside, plus four color photos and a graph. That’s a huge part of the news hole on any day, but particularly on […]
NewSchools Presents: Bill Jackson, GreatSchools
In 1998, Kim Smith, a student at Stanford Graduate School of Business, teamed up with famed venture capitalist John Doerr and Brook Byers to build an organization whose mission was to transform education by supporting education entrepreneurs. The trio recognized that entrepreneurs had revolutionized the fields of science, medicine, and technology, and wanted to bring […]
NewSchools Presents: Alexandra Bernadotte and Scott Given
When we invited education entrepreneurs to tell their stories in our Story Booth at NewSchools Summit 2011 earlier this year we were completely unprepared for the response we received. We heard from a diverse group of social innovators, fiercely dedicated to improving public education for all children. They spoke the experiences which led them to […]
The Super-Connected Classroom: Experiments in Ingenuity From the Ground Up
When Chris Lehmann, principal of the technology-rich Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, wanted to give teachers feedback on their lessons last year, he turned to his iPad. Lehmann wanted to deliver comments to teachers faster than typing them into Microsoft Word documents would allow. So he started entering compliments, critiques, and notes into teachers’ personal […]
New Video Series Celebrates Education Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are a special breed; they’re tenacious, imaginative risk-takers willing to work hard to see their ideas become reality. They draw on diverse experiences to generate breakthrough ideas that disrupt the status quo. And they’re bringing the same transformative impact to public education as they have in the fields of medicine, technology and science. That’s […]
Investing in Innovation (i3) Foundation Registry
The application deadline for Department of Education Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund grants has passed (it was August 2 this year). But here’s a helpful website for organizations seeking matching foundation funds for their grants: the Foundation Registry i3, at http://foundationregistryi3.org/. This website was created as a resource for organizations pursuing i3 funding. It was set up […]