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Recently, the very private Laurene Powell Jobs has become a more vocal figure. Last month, she made her first televised appearance since the death of her husband, Apple AAPL cofounder Steve Jobs, pushing for immigration reform in a discussion with…

BURLINGAME, Calif: Salman Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, spoke this morning at the NewSchools Venture Summit on his vision for education in 2028. Khan drew a terrifying comparison between factory workers on the assembly line, who move when…

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit that started out channeling philanthropic donations to charter schools and that now invests in a range of education groups and businesses, is entering into a partnership with a new venture capital fund that could result…

Heiber is founder and executive director of Concentric Educational Solutions, an organization that helps incorporate student support services in sc

NewSchools Venture Fund does it again, investing in an awesome startup with big goals. Earlier this year, I covered Goalbook, an ed tech startup that was taking a drastically different approach to the development and usability of IEPs (Individual Educational…

As kids head back to school this month and next, some will find a rather new arrangement greeting them: blended classrooms. These don’t feel

Chicago-based startup eSpark Learning, which founder and CEO Dav

When I decided to begin covering the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship and education more seriously, my first goal was to seek out the b

Joanne Weiss is chief of staff to Secretary Arne Duncan at the U.S. Department of Education. She joined the department in 2009 as senior adviser to the secretary and director of the Race to the Top program, designed to encourage…

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