NewSchools Venture Fund CEO Ted Mitchell congratulates portfolio members that won i3
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Aug. 5, 2010—NewSchools Venture Fund CEO Ted Mitchell today congratulated the nine NewSchools-supported ventures that won grants through the federal Investing in Innovation (“i3”) program.
Now available: videos from NewSchools Summit 2010 general sessions
Were you paying attention at the NewSchools Summit in DC this spring? Think you know who makes what plea to the entrepreneurial education movement? Then match the speaker with the memorable quote: 1. “No more Mister Nice Guy.” 2. “All means all.” 3. “The challenge before you now is to make these extraordinary successes a […]
NewSchools Summit 2010 Session Overview and Video: Scaling Impact: Answering the Administration’s Call
Session Description: This last year has been unprecendented for education entrepreneurs, with the federal government increaing funding available to innovative nonprofits, engaging social innovators in the development of policy, and highlighting the work of entrepreneurs as proof points to be emulated. This plenary explored two related sets of questions: First, how will these innovative ideas, […]
NewSchools Summit 2010 Session Overview and Video: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Summit Description: Education entrepreneurs’ intense efforts over the past decade and a half have yielded promising results, demonstrating how innovative thinking and fierce dedication can change the lives of children from underserved communities. These accomplishments have only been possible through the collaboration of entrepreneurs working across professional boundaries to end the inequality that blunts the […]
NewSchools Summit 2010 Session Overview and Video: The Secretary and the Chairman: A Conversation with Arne Duncan and George Miller
Session Description As anyone who has watched “Schoolhouse Rock” knows, the decisive voices in federal education reform efforts will be those of the Administration and of Congress. In this highly unusual joint appearance, two of the most important decision makers joined in conversation on the prospects for real change. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. […]
NewSchools Summit 2010 Session Overview and Video: Closing Achievement Gaps: The Civil Rights Issue of the Next Decade
Session Description: This intergenerational conversation highlighted connections and differences between the civil rights and education reform movements, and explored insights that the civil rights movement provides for tackling what many consider today’s most important social justice issue: closing the achievement gaps that persist in public education. Entrepreneurs were inspired to redouble their actions in addressing the […]
NewSchools Summit 2010 Session Overview and Video: Awards
Description: While much of the NewSchools Summit focuses on charting a path forward and taking a hard, critical look at the challenges and opportunities for this community in the future, it is also an occasion to celebrate the tremendous achievements of the education reform community. As such, NewSchools recognizes individuals and organizations that, through their embodiment of the spirit […]
Opinion: Common educational standards for common good
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
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.
Education inventors get boost under new programs
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.