UPenn Innovation Event Features Ed. Industry Players
Education startup companies vied for $145,000 in business funding at an entrepreneurship conference in Philadelphia that is tackling the role of for-profit companies in education. Read Full Post >
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May 07, 2013
January 14, 2013
Smart Cities: San Francisco Schools Improving, But Impervious to Creative City Assets
San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) appears to be in a time warp. Yesterday, I outlined the leadership role that the Bay Area, especially the city of San Francisco, plays in learning innovation. However, the contrast between one of the most creative cities on the planet and the local school districts is stark. Read Full Post >
January 13, 2013
Smart Cities: San Francisco
The Bay Area is unquestionably the world's leading innovation hub--and that includes learning. Ten years ago it was all about Silicon Valley, but recently Oakland emerged as an edreform hotspot. Read Full Post >
December 29, 2012
Quality Access to Learning: Teachers and Technology
Wendy Heckert explores technology implementation in the classroom, and makes a plea to start-ups to help train teachers to best use new tools Read Full Post >
December 26, 2012
CommaSpaceErgo: Crowdsourcing Education's Trends, Stats, and Facts
We, the education community, are in desperate need of a repository for statistics and trends of all sorts in the learning landscape. Why not build it together? CommaSpaceErgo is born... Read Full Post >
December 06, 2012
The SIIA ETBF: I laughed, I cried, I fell in love (with a few start-ups)
The SIIA Ed-Tech Business Forum featured presentations from a number of start-ups making moves in the learning community: let's take a look at the finalists! Read Full Post >
December 06, 2012
Can Ed- Tech Companies Survive Marketing Only to Teachers?
Developing products based on teachers' experiences and preferences would help improve academic performance, which would likely influence district-level purchasing decisions, experts say. Read Full Post >
November 26, 2012
Smart Cities: New York City is an EdTech Hotspot
New York City schools have been among the most innovative in the country as discussed last week. NYC is home to the most education industry leaders and the second most prolific tech startup and EdTech hotspot on the planet (after the Bay Area). Read Full Post >
November 09, 2012
Toward the Good School Promise: an Election Recap
While there are millions of happy democrats this week, a critic sees a landscape "littered with rubble and ruin and wreckage on all sides" in an open letter to the President. Elections leave aggrieved poles, but I live in a much more optimistic place. In particular, I'm optimistic about five things. Read Full Post >
November 08, 2012
Smart Cities: Boston
Boston has been a leader in education for more than 400 years. Drawing from its existing network of universities, learning companies, innovation economy, and technical talent, there are more than 130 education technology and learning-oriented startups in the Boston area. Read Full Post >
