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Baltimore, Boston Move to Build Ed-Tech Hubs
Baltimore and Boston are cities with their own distinct economic identities, but more recently they’ve shared an economic-development strategy: Both have organizations working aggressively to establish their metro regions as…
Shauntel Poulson, Principal, NewSchools Venture Fund
Personalized learning models combine new technology with ongoing assessment, data use, and changes in how teachers use time and structure the school day, in order to create dramatically more personalized…
Game Developers Experiment With More Open-Ended Apps
A new group of developers is trying to tackle the educational app market, which has huge potential for profits, but has been hard to crack because of parent and teacher skepticism…
What’s race got to do with it? Everything, as topic eclipses ed-tech talk at NSVF Summit
After two major education conferences in a row, I expected aggressive promotion of digital tools and products at last week’s NewSchools Venture Fund Summit, along with requisite promises of their potential…
A Tale of Different Deals: Diving into Early Stage Edtech Investments
VCs are more active than ever, but no two deals are alikeRead the full story on EdSurge