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EdTech
Smart List: 30 Innovation Investors
Today we are recognizing 30 investors, incubators, and new school engines powering the learning revolution.
Ed Policy
Smart List: 40 Advocacy Orgs Making a Difference
Today we are recognizing 40 great policy and advocacy organizations. These groups put students first, set the path, and lead the conversation.
EdTech
“School of Thought” Video Series Launched
"The School of Thought videos serve as our end goal, one from which we start with and build our theory of change model, use a back mapping process to align the research we are conducting today to that future vision, and determine investigative projects and collaborations over time to move us from where we are today to that end goal."
Personalized Learning
10 Signs From NGLC Winners
Next Generation Learning Challenges award applications for “new, personalized, blended, mastery-based school capable of generating dramatically higher outcomes for students.”
Personalized Learning
NGLC Makes 8 Launch and 30 Planning Grants for Next-Gen High Schools
Next Generation Learning Challenges announced another round of grants today: 8 pre-opening grants of $450k and 30 planning grants of $100k.
Innov8
EdTech 10: Better Blends, More Online Opportunity
Bringing in the dough this week was Coursera, who raised $43 million from Learn Capital, GSV, Laureate, and IFC. “Coursera’s next frontiers involve better pedagogy and greater globalization.
Ed Policy
New Tech Network Boosts College Enrollment & Persistence
Recent data from New Tech Network (NTN), a non-profit project-based STEM-focused school developer, showed that their alumni stay in four-year and two-year colleges at 17% and 46% higher rates, respectively, than the national average; with NTN college enrollment rates 9% greater than the U.S. average.
EdTech
EdTechWomen Community Continues to Build
At the EdTechWomen Dine #ISTE13 event we are proud to say that we hosted educators, entrepreneurs, founders, professors, administrators, writers, bloggers, reporters, technologists, programmers, and teachers.
Personalized Learning
Infographic: How To Start An Online Program & Webinar Preview
Online learning can expand student (and staff) options, grow enrollment, and power blended learning. This inforgraphic previews the paper and the webinar “Online Learning: Myths, Reality & Promise."
Personalized Learning
How to Create a Blended High School
Last week I visited a team planning a new high school, a team planning to reinvigorate a high school, and operators of a couple high performing networks.