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  We’re thrilled to announce $1.5 million in funding to the 15 winners of the NewSchools Ignite Special Education Challenge. This cohort of entrepreneurs brings a diversity of ed tech solutions with potential to impact the more than 6.4 million…
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We’re excited to announce the NewSchools Ignite: Special Education Challenge, which opens today.  This challenge – the fourth in the NewSchools Ignite series – is open to entrepreneurs developing engaging, technology-enabled learning experiences, instructional content, assessments, administrative tools, and other…
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The following post was originally published on EdSurge by Stacey Childress: Every January, it’s customary to make resolutions and predictions for the new year. This year, I want to go all out and make a prediction not just for the…
Guest Post by Heather Hiles, Founder of Pathbrite I recently spent time with a cohort of ed tech entrepreneurs supported by NewSchools Venture Fund through their NewSchools Ignite accelerator.  My friends at NewSchools asked me and a couple of other…
Today, we are proud to announce the 13 winners of the NewSchools Ignite English Language Learning Challenge: eSpark Learning Flocabulary Listenwise Nearpod Newsela Quill.org Readworks Storyworld Spotlight Speak Agent Mawi Learning TalkingPoints ThinkCERCA We can’t wait to tell you about…
New funding will support knowledge sharing and systems development for data collection and analysis San Francisco, CA – September 8, 2016 – Research, development, and services nonprofit WestEd and the nonprofit NewSchools Venture Fund are proud to announce a grant…
Nearly five million PreK-12 students in America are English Language Learners.  That’s a lot of students.   And, we’ve heard from teachers and researc
And, if you think so, too…we should be talking. NewSchools invests in the most creative ideas and supports visionary leaders with the potential to r