Investors Often Ignore Entrepreneurs of Color. NewSchools Venture Fund Wants to Change That

A Major K-12 Funder Takes the Participatory Grantmaking Plunge

NewSchools President Frances Messano Featured by Inside Philanthropy

Like Airlines, Schools Can Fall Victim to ‘Press-On-Itis.’ 6 Ways to Make Sure Reopening Plans Can Adapt as Circumstances Change

We Helped Two Schools Create Reopening Plans — Here Are Five Lessons

What are the Big Questions for 2018?

Reposted From EdSurge: ​What Does It Take to Create Diverse Schools? Meet the Pioneers Making It Happen

Reposted From EdSurge: From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

Reposted From EdSurge: Early Learning Faces Obstacles and Inequities—Here’s How Edtech Can Help

Reposted From EdSurge: Have a Bold Idea for Education? Here’s How to Apply for Funding from NewSchools

Reposted From EdSurge: From the NBA to Edtech Investing – An Interview with NewSchools’ Tonika Cheek Clayton

Guest Blog: How an Elite Education Reform Conference Felt More Like a #BlackLivesMatter Rally

TIME features Blue Engine in documentary on American dream

New Chronicle Award Will Honor Top Bay Area Visionary

Startup Founders Apply Education Experience

Zynga.org’s Game-Based Learning Accelerator Pairs Newbies With Experienced Players

Educators must do more to reach young men of color

KELOWNA EDTECH STARTUP FRESHGRADE RAISES $4.3 MILLION SEED ROUND

FreshGrade Raises $4.3M to Connect Teachers, Students and Parents

How Foundations Can Engage the Startup Community to Accelerate Impact

Accelerated: Inside Pixowl’s Decision to Focus on Parents Rather than Schools

Ellevation Education adds $2 million in funding to help teachers working with English language learners

Adding Things Up: Behind the Success of Motion Math’s Suite of Apps

It’s Time: Connecting What Students Need & What Entrepreneurs Create

K-12 District Leaders Evolving Into Smarter Ed-Tech Consumers

Investors Debate Possible Bubble in the Ed-Tech Marketplace

Co.lab Game Accelerator Opens Applications for Next Round

Strong standards, political air cover, and talent: Exporting the success of Boston’s charter school sector

Venture capitalists make a big deal over education

Venture capitalists learn to love education

Baltimore, Boston Move to Build Ed-Tech Hubs

Shauntel Poulson, Principal, NewSchools Venture Fund

Game Developers Experiment With More Open-Ended Apps

What’s race got to do with it? Everything, as topic eclipses ed-tech talk at NSVF Summit

A Tale of Different Deals: Diving into Early Stage Edtech Investments

It’s Time To Talk About Race

NSVF: Spotlights Innovator Teachers and Entrepreneurs for Annual Awards

Boston, Baltimore Seeking to Become Hubs for Ed-Tech Startups

Scaling Up Education: Finding New Financing Methods

BrightBytes Expands Educational Footprint: Raises $15 Million to Fuel Growth and Innovation

Look What Happens When Venture Capitalists Get Behind School Reform

EdSurge Wraps Up Funding; Launching New Initiatives

LearnBop Wins Top Honors in “Shark-Tank” Type Competition, Sponsored by Silicon Valley Education Foundation and NewSchools Venture Fund

51 Questions Any Edtech Entrepreneur Must Answer

THE WORLD’S TOP 10 MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES IN EDUCATION

This Is Silicon Valley’s Favorite Ed Reform Group

Cassidy: Shark Tank competition seeks to boost educational technology in Silicon Valley

Education Startup Tales2Go Raises $750K for ‘Netflix-Like’ Audiobook App

Jennifer Carolan: “Edtech K-12 Investments Up 6% This Year”

Where an Education Fund Sees Promise

Education Companies Invest Time, Money in Startups

Nine Questions for Evaluating Education Innovation

NewSchools Seed Fund: Writing a new chapter for ed-tech startups

Take The Money Or Go It Alone?

Honest report on teacher prep got a bad rap: Criticism of group was unfair and based on fallacies — and it’s coming mainly from education schools

Unlocking Gaming Potential: Ted Mitchell on the NewSchools Venture Fund/Zynga.org Learning Games Accelerator

Transformative leaders: First cohort graduates from innovative doctor of education leadership program

Mapping the Edtech Market: Where in the edtech world are you?

Charter schools in Boston score higher on key tests

Common Core: A Platform for Equity and Innovation

NewSchools Summit 2013 Recap: Thoughts leaders, entrepreneurs and educators converge to share ideas and concerns

NewSchools Venture Fund to address shortage of ed-tech capital

NewSchools & New Tools: PD, Games & MOOCs

Zynga To Launch Learning Games Accelerator

Embracing education change: Summit in Burlingame focuses on standards, school needs

Education in a Defined Benefits World

Zynga and NewSchools Venture Fund create accelerator for educational gaming startups

Zynga & NewSchools team up to launch an accelerator for educational gaming startups

Zynga to Give Education-Tech Startups a Boost

Zynga, NewSchools partner to build accelerator for ed-tech games

Laurene Powell Jobs Engages Education Secretary Arne Duncan On School Reform, Immigration Legislation

Khan Academy CEO: Education in 2028 won’t be about ‘sitting passively & not questioning authority’

NewSchools Fund Attracts More Capital

THE 3-MINUTE INTERVIEW: David Heiber

Mytonomy: New support for guidance counselors with investment from NewSchools Venture Fund

Anticipating a Blended Classroom Boom Led by Education Startups

Pandora For Ed Apps: eSpark Nabs $5.7M From 500 Startups, Others

EdSurge Nabs $400K From Washington Post, NewSchools To Be A Resource For All Things EdTech

Talking leadership with Joanne Weiss, Arne Duncan’s chief of staff at the Department of Education

Race To The Top Innovates Backwards, Education Venture Nonprofit Says

University of Michigan strives to lead the way in rethinking colleges of education

High school coder gets $3M for his gradebook software, 10-years later

Engrade Grabs $3M From Wireless Generation Co-founder To Help Teachers Manage Their Classrooms

Social Entrepreneurs Try to Offer Solutions to K-12 Problems

Goalbook – Social IEPs for everyone? Actually, yes

Potential Benefits for Education Startups Seen in U.S. Bill

LearnZillion, One of the Scrappy Startups Making D.C. a Hotspot

The Educators

Startups Seek to Master the Education Market

NewSchools Venture Fund Launches Education Technology Seed Fund

PIE Network Welcomes Three Leading Education Reformers to Board of Directors

What Three Big EdTech Investments Say About The Future Of Education

Initiative aims for 100,000 new STEM teachers

Bay Area Leading the Learning Revolution

Grockit Raises Money for Online Test Prep

BetterLesson Grabs $1.6 Million to Let Educators Find and Share the Best Lesson Plans

NewSchools CEO Ted Mitchell: My Best Idea For K-12 Education

The Intersection of Technology and Test Scores

The Super-Connected Classroom: Experiments in Ingenuity From the Ground Up

Charter Operators Face Challenges in ‘Scaling Up’