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Investors go back to school: Venture capital votes yes on charter schools
in Uncategorized onView PostNew Schools Venture Fund seeks investors to look for gains in education A venture capital firm not looking for a profit? Have the gods gone crazy? The New Scho…
High School Will Never Be The Same
in Uncategorized onView PostReformers are pushing for a curriculum that uses technology to prepare students for the New Economy.
A Principal Crisis in Education
in Uncategorized onView PostAs predictions of a debilitating shortage of school superintendents and principals play out across the nation, dozens of school systems are taking an aggressiv…
Venture Philanthropists: The New Schools Fund
in Uncategorized onView PostThe anxious promoters of a start-up company, wearing their Sears suits and begging for an investment from clench-jawed venture capitalists wearing Brioni: ther…
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
in Uncategorized onView PostLast February, in his first speech at HBS in six years, L. John Doerr (MBA ’76), a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and one of the world&#…
Kim Smith: Venturing Forth
in Uncategorized onView Post“THE BEST EDUCATION INVESTOR REALLY BELIEVES THAT GOOD EDUCATION IS GOOD BUSINESS.” In her two years as founding president of the New Schools Ventu…
Defying Convention, Superintendent Takes A Chance on Charters
in Uncategorized onView PostSAN CARLOS, Calif. — Hurtling around central California visiting his start-ups;t alking business plans and deliverables; courting venture capitalists and…
Schools That Think
in Uncategorized onView PostThe Service School University Public Schools, San Joaquin Campus, Stockton, California Principal: Mary Welch Grades: K-5, expanding to K-6 in September 2000 Nu…
