Saying good-bye to the scribe of our movement
By and large, we at NewSchools like to use this blog space to announce news, or to ruminate on ideas, trends, and policy matters that are core to the work of education entrepreneurs. It’s rarely for individual matters. This will be an exception. For the last eight years, Julie Landry Petersen has served as the […]
NewSchools Venture Fund announces $5 million in investments to spur education innovation
National nonprofit venture philanthropy firm NewSchools Venture Fund announced today the first in a set of grants totaling more than $5 million to drive innovation and results in the education of low-income children.
NewSchools Venture Fund and Teach For America announce inaugural cohort of the EdTech Entrepreneurs Lab
SAN FRANCISCO , CA (February 11, 2010) – NewSchools Venture Fund and Teach For America announced today the 25 aspiring education entrepreneurs selected to participate in the first-ever EdTech Entrepreneurs Lab. The Lab is a joint program of Teach For America and the venture philanthropy firm NewSchools Venture Fund.
Educational inequity? There must be an app for that.
Fired up by the challenges you see facing public education? Excited about the potential of technology to change the way we learn and work? Ready to do something about it? Bring your passion, ideas and entrepreneurial spirit to the EdTech Entrepreneurs Lab, a brand new program that Teach for America and NewSchools Venture Fund are […]
Why Good Authorizers Should Close Bad Schools
NewSchools team members Jim Peyser and Maura Marino provide an overview of charter school closure and the need for both solid evidence of necessity and political will.
Teacher evaluations go mainstream: New York City releases teacher performance data
It started here in Los Angeles last month when the L.A. Times, using data it obtained from the LAUSD, ran its own value-added analysis of teacher performance and then published the results.
NewSchools announces $5 million investment in entrepreneurial organizations as 150K people pledge to see Waiting for “Superman”
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (October 8, 2010) – Honoring a pledge to the viewers of Waiting for “Superman,” national nonprofit venture philanthropy firm NewSchools Venture Fund announced today that it will invest $5 million in innovative education organizations to help close achievement gaps in low-income communities.
NewSchools Venture Fund joins WaitingforSuperman.com “pledge progress meter” at the 150,000 pledge level
HOLLYWOOD, CA (September 23, 2010) – Paramount Pictures, Participant Media and Walden Media jointly announced today NewSchools Venture Fund has joined the WaitingforSuperman.com “Pledge Progress Meter” for the award-winning documentary film WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN” at the 150,000 pledge level. The Fund has committed to investing $5 million in entrepreneurial organizations to create high quality public education opportunities for more of America’s children.
Answering the Administration’s Call: Stepping Up and Scaling Impact
This report highlights key takeaways from the 2010 NewSchools Summit and Community of Practice Event, which took place in Washington, DC on May 11- 12, 2010. Before a crowd of more than 600 participants, federal policy leaders came together with education entrepreneurs to describe what is possible in public education, and confront the political and operational challenges ahead.
More video: supercharging student achievement
In this final set of videos from the NewSchools Summit 2010, speakers at the Community of Practice event — held the day before the Summit with a smaller set of about 200 entrepreneurs and other practitioners — talked about the power of technology to help close the achievement gap. In the morning, participants heard about […]