Boston-based Ellevation Education, which offers teachers tools to help plan, report, and track the instruction of English language learners, announced earlier this month that it has raised $2 million in funding from a group of angel investors.
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School leaders debating whether to buy educational technology often find themselves weighing the promised benefits against their worst fears—soaring costs, disruptive breakdowns, and befuddled teachers and students—not knowing whether they’re about to make a purchase their districts will come to…
A sharp rise in investment flowing into K-12 educational technology and a flood of new startups entering the market have longtime players cheering the attention to what they call a previously undervalued sector, but have also spurred concerns that this…
Here follows the third entry in Fordham’s “Charter School Policy Wonk-a-Thon,” in which Mike Petrilli challenged a number of prominent scholars, practitioners, and policy analysts to take a stab at explaining why some charter sectors outpace their local district schools…
Venture capitalists are pouring money into educational technology. If last year’s numbers are any indication, the amount of spending could double to more than $2 billion in 2014.
The above graphic uses data from the New Schools Venture Fund, a…
Education isn’t what you’d typically think of as sexy. It’s practical. It’s serious.
But add a little tech and vavoom! Venture capitalists are very, very into it.
Michael Moe is CEO of GSV Capital, which has invested $100 million in…
