Early Bird Catches the Worm
With Summit 2011 two months away, we’d like to remind all invited guests to register before this early-bird (seagull!) special flies away on March 25th! This year’s Summit offers participants more opportunities to connect one-on-one and in small groups. That’s just one of the ways Summit 2011 will look different from past events. Here are […]
Waiting for Superman pledge turns up $5M for change in schools
Waiting for Superman, a popular documentary about America’s public school woes which drew particular attention from Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial class, comes out on DVD today, February 15. In September, Paramount Pictures announced that NewSchools Venture Fund had committed to investing $5 million in entrepreneurial education organizations if over 150,000 pledged to watch the film.
Future schools: Blending face-to-face and online learning
The way the 1st graders hurtle toward their computer workstations, you’d think they were headed out to recess. It’s an unseasonably warm winter morning in San Jose, California, and the two dozen students at Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary School get situated quickly in the computer lab, donning headphones and peering into monitors displaying their names.
An in-depth interview with Eric Nee, managing editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review
In advance of the 2011 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, I interviewed Eric Nee, Managing Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, about the evolution of the publication, the state and promise of social innovation today, how Stanford University thinks about these issues, gaps in sector-wide research, and more.
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
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.