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| 29.06.2023 | Newsela Acquires Formative | Newsela, a New York-based provider of a K-12 instructional content platform, acquired Formative, a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of a real-time instruction and assessment platform.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
This acquisitio... |
| 21.12.2022 | How EdTech Companies Can Get Freemium Right | Edtech founders wonder if freemium is the best way to scale their impacts. (Photo by Patrick ... [+] Lux/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| 14.10.2021 | Newsela breaks into interactive educational video with first acquisition | YouTube is the third-most-used website within schools, according to Matthew Gross, CEO and co-founder of Newsela.
“That is incredible, considering how difficult it is to find videos, how unfiltered it is and how inaccessible it is for many ... |
| 08.09.2021 | Improving literacy with mobile phones and tech tools in Africa | Share this article:
Emeka was eight years old when he dropped out of primary school. He couldn’t read and write at the time, and his environment was not conducive for learning.
“When I was in primary school, I used to think I wasn’t cut out... |
| 06.03.2021 | Instructional Content Platform Newsela Closes $100 Million | Newsela — a leading K-12 instructional content platform — announced recently that it has raised a $100 million Series D round of funding led by new investor Franklin Templeton
Newsela — a leading K-12 instructional content platform — announ... |
| 01.03.2021 | Newsela picks up $100M | Newsela has raised a $100 million Series D co-led by Franklin Templeton and TCV, with participation from Owl Ventures, Tao Capital Partners, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Waycross Ventures. The New York-based company is the developer of an... |
| 28.02.2021 | Newsela Raises $100M in Series D Funding | Newsela, a NYC-based textbook replacement SaaS for K-12, raised $100m in Series D funding.
The round, raised at a $1 billion valuation, was led by Franklin Templeton with participation from TCV, Kleiner Perkins, Reach Capital and Owl Ventur... |
| 26.02.2021 | New York based Edtech startup Newsela raises US $100 million in series D round | American company Newsela that seeks to replace textbooks in classroom learning, announces the raise of US $100 million in its Series D round late in February 2021. The round witnessed major participation from new investor Franklin Templeton... |
| 26.02.2021 | Newsela Raises $100M to Challenge K-12 Textbook Publishers, Eyes Acquisitions | Business news is packed with unicorns, and Newsela is the latest in education to join the herd after reaching the vaunted billion-dollar valuation.
That status comes courtesy of a $100 million investment led by Franklin Templeton and existi... |
| 25.02.2021 | Newsela, the replacement for textbooks, raises $100M and becomes a unicorn | Newsela, a SaaS platform for K-12 instructional material backed by the likes of TCV, Kleiner Perkins, Reach Capital and Owl Ventures, announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series D round. The financing was led by new investor... |
| 25.02.2021 | Daily funding roundup - February 25th, 2021 | Mantle raised $13M; Armorblox landed $30M; Lob secured $50M; Otter.ai picks up $50M
TreeCard: TreeCard is a U.K. yet-to-launch fintech offering a spending card made out of wood and the promise to fund reforesting via the interchange fees ge... |
| 25.02.2021 | Newsela Announces $100 Million Series D Financing | |
| 25.02.2021 | Newsela Raises $100 Million Series D | Leading K-12 instructional content platform Newsela announced today a $100M Series D investment led by new investor Franklin Templeton and existing investor TCV, with participation by Owl Ventures, Tao Capital Partners, Chan Zuckerberg Init... |
| 13.12.2019 | As More States Require Schools to Teach LGBTQ History, Resources for Teachers Expand | Larah Helayne of Mount Sterling, Ky., always knew she was attracted to women, but she planned to become a nun until about a year ago. Falling in love changed her plans. She didn’t know much about LGBTQ history — mostly just what she’d learn... |
| 12.11.2019 | How to Help Your Students Navigate the News in a Presidential Election Year | For social studies educators, a presidential election year is a big deal. It’s a nationwide teachable moment in which the entire country is constantly discussing a hearty list of key standards that is supposed to inform our instruction. I’v... |
| 12.11.2019 | It’s Time for Social Studies to Make a Comeback. Here Are 3 Insights for Educators. | Social studies is poised for a comeback in U.S. schools. While ELA and math priorities have long enjoyed top billing on many district agendas, the importance of investing more in social studies instruction is now coming to the forefront, es... |
| 05.11.2019 | This District Tapped Students’ Histories to Create an Ethnic Studies Curriculum | In 1979 I was seven years old, a couple of years older than my twin son pictured above. In the downtown Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park that I grew up in, there were no murals of Filipino American history or dynamic swing sets anchore... |
| 28.10.2019 | When Teaching the Holocaust, Heed These Three Recommendations | From the landmark 1983 “A Nation at Risk” report—which sounded an alarm about student achievement and national competitiveness in the Cold War era—to today’s renewed attention to civic education, new trends in American education are often r... |
| 14.04.2019 | Стартап дня год спустя: шампуни на заказ, виртуальный Android и питательный напиток Soylent | Каждую неделю проверяю, как идут дела у прошлогодних стартапов.
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| 15.03.2019 | Newsela Secures $50M in Series C Funding | Newsela, a NYC-based instructional content platform, raised $50m in Series C funding.
Growth equity firm TCV made the investment. As part of the transaction, Woody Marshall, a General Partner at TCV, has joined Newsela’s Board of Directors.... |
| 14.03.2019 | Term Sheet — Thursday, March 14 | ‘THE SIDE DOOR’
The college admissions cheating saga continues. New details are emerging around the scam, in which 50 people were accused for paying bribes to get their children into elite schools.
Paid Content Securing the enterprise witho... |
| 14.03.2019 | Daily funding roundup - March 14th, 2019 | StoryFit raised $1.75M; CryptoNumerics raised $2.5M; Gencove raised $3M; Fi $7M
StoryFit: StoryFit puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of publishers and studios. StoryFit has raised $1.75 million in new funding led by ff ... |
| 13.03.2019 | Read This: Newsela Lands $50 Million From Spotify Investor | Woody Marshall had seen this business strategy before. Attract users with a free product. Dazzle with quality content, an intuitive interface and whet the appetite for a paid upgrade. That approach worked for Spotify, a company in the portf... |
| 13.03.2019 | Newsela, An EdTech Startup For Generation Z, Lands $50M From TCV | 23 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
When Matthew Gross saw his second-grade son struggling to read, he decided to do something to make learning more engaging and fun. So in 2013, he co-launched a company to help students learn to read... |
| 13.03.2019 | Newsela Secures $50 Million Series C | Leading instructional content platform, Newsela, announced today a $50 million C investment from growth equity firm TCV, who has a history of backing successful content platforms, including Netflix and Spotify. Newsela will use these funds ... |
| 13.03.2019 | Newsela raises $50M to expand a content repository for K-12 learning that replaces traditional textbooks | As schools continue to look for new ways to cut costs while at the same time reboot their curriculum to better tap new innovations and improved understandings of how children learn, e-learning startups are attracting attention, both from ed... |
| 13.03.2019 | Newsela, An EdTech Startup For Generation Z, Lands $50M From TCV | 24 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
When Matthew Gross saw his second-grade son struggling to read, he decided to do something to make learning more engaging and fun. So in 2013, he co-launched a company to help students learn to read... |
| 28.08.2018 | Does It Make More Sense to Invest in School Security or SEL? | School security is a constant challenge, but tragedies such as the shooting in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 students in February bring the issue front and center. After the Parkland shooting, lawmakers from both parties saw the need for a... |
| 18.06.2018 | 3 Tips to Incorporate Social-Emotional Learning Into Everyday Literacy Instruction | As school leaders across the country seek to adopt social-emotional learning (SEL) as a formal part of curriculum, one question keeps surfacing: How can educators weave SEL into a day already bursting with “have-to’s” and “must-do’s”?No mat... |
| 15.06.2018 | Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Friday, June 15 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Friday, June 15.
Cryptocurrency Ether soars 9% after SEC official says it’s not a security. Ether, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, jumped about 9 percen... |
| 21.05.2018 | Four Classroom-Ready Tips to Boost Reading Engagement and Drive Learning | What leads to reading success? In my view, success with reading doesn’t follow from drill and kill practices that stifle interest and motivation. Rather, it follows from nurturing a love of reading and closing the reading engagement gap—the... |
| 22.04.2018 | Empathy technologies like VR, AR and social media can transform education | Jennifer Carolan Contributor
Jennifer Carolan is a general partner and co-founder of Reach Capital.
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Why VR matters, especially in rural schools
In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Harvard psychologist Steven P... |
| 14.04.2018 | Стартапы дня год спустя: онлайн-рация Zello, аренда машин с автостоянок TravelCar и другие проекты | Директор по стратегии и анализу Mail.Ru Group Александр Горный о судьбе проектов из рубрики «Стартап дня».
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| 10.04.2018 | Why You’re Thinking About Efficacy All Wrong (And How to Fix It) | Last summer, I was on a call with a district superintendent who had just one request: “Give me something—anything—that shows that the product works for my students.” In my role as Newsela’s resident senior researcher, I am responsible for p... |
| 19.10.2017 | Owl Ventures, which funds edtech exclusively, just raised $185 million for its second fund | Plenty of investors have broken their picks, trying to find gold in education technology. That doesn’t seem to concern the limited partners of Owl Ventures, a three-year-old venture firm that’s focused only on edtech, and which just closed ... |
| 24.04.2017 | Data Sharing Hasn’t Been a Concern for Most Newsela Customers—But Super Users Want More | Improving how student data is shared across systems has been a slowly evolving concern for Newsela since its launch in 2013. The New York City-based startup offers a reading tool that lets students read nonfiction and news articles at diffe... |
| 19.04.2017 | 6 New Startups Redefining The Educational Space | Tech startups are creating buzz in transportation, gaming, healthcare, and telecommunications sectors. Everybody knows this. What people may not realize is that technology has a huge impact on the educational space as well. In the first qua... |
| 16.04.2017 | Let’s Prepare Students for the World—Not Tests | Spring means one thing to many elementary and middle schools across the country: test prep. Students across the country are gearing up to take federally mandated, state-administered exams, and teachers, administrators and parents all feel t... |
| 27.03.2017 | Cloud computing pushes into the classroom, but not without challenges | Enlarge / Seth Erdman, center, and his fellow students use Chromebooks while working on a lesson in a third grade class on Friday, January 16, 2015, at Walden Elementary School in Deerfield, Illinois. (Anthony Souffle)
Chicago Tribune / Con... |
| 28.02.2017 | What the Newest Fitness Craze Can Teach Us About Personalized Learning | We’re now two months into 2017—a good time to set aside the half-priced post-Valentine’s Day candy and check in on our New Year's resolutions. This year, I committed to getting in shape, so my first stop was Orangetheory Fitness, a trendy c... |
| 05.10.2016 | CommonLit wins $3.9 million grant to help students master reading skills | A tech nonprofit called CommonLit won a $3.89 million grant from the Department of Education to develop software and content that helps students read well enough to graduate from high school and succeed in their careers or college.
The gran... |
| 22.08.2016 | Newsela rolls out Library to help students read beyond the news | When Newsela was created in 2012, the edtech startup aimed to help students master reading at their own pace, specifically with news articles adapted to different reading levels.
The company’s app has racked up 800,000 teachers, and 7.7 mil... |
| 04.05.2016 | Why Zuck is funding the evolution beyond cookie-cutter education | The best teachers see how each student requires a unique inspiration and learning style. Yet with classroom sizes ballooning and teachers underpaid, there’s no way for students to get the dedicated attention they need. Luckily, technology c... |
| 06.10.2015 | Newsela Raises $15M in Series B Funding | Newsela, a NYC-based publishing platform that aims to promote literacy, raised $15m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) with participation from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan and Women’s... |
| 06.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 6, 2015 | Impossible Foods raised $108M; Code42 secured $85M; Canva bagged $21M
Mumbai-based Aasaanjobs Pvt. Ltd that owns and operates the online recruitment portal Aasaanjobs.com said on Wednesday that it has raised $1.5 million in funding from Inv... |
| 06.10.2015 | Newsela Makes More News With $15M Round Led By Kleiner Perkins | Read all about it! Newsela is once again making headlines.
The New York-based company has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which contributed $10 million. Zuckerberg Education Ventures, the ... |
| 07.08.2015 | Diepsloot school digitally equipped | A deep understanding of teachers' context and desired learning outcomes is vital in helping implement a successful digital learning solution, says Nicola Acutt, VP of the VMware Foundation, the philanthropy arm of the multinational cloud
CL... |
| 06.05.2015 | LightSail Raises $3.5 Million for Tablet-Based Libraries | English language arts curriculum is a competitive industry in the edtech world, and today, NYC-based literacy tool LightSail announced a $3.5 million round to further its efforts to take that market by storm.
Led by Scott Cook, co-founder a... |
| 24.03.2015 | Literacy Startups Race to Get News | Traditional newsprint publishers struggling to capture a new generation of readers may have a new ally: companies with a knack for building powerful technology but lacking in content.
An emerging class of literacy startups is racing to grab... |
| 27.10.2014 | EdSurge Green in the Emerald City: Tech for Schools Summit in Seattle | “I feel like I’ve won already -- I’ve had golden opportunities to sit down and have real conversations,” praised Suzanne Righi, who teaches 5th grade at Madrona K-8 School.
It may have been chilly and rainy in Seattle on October 24-25, but ... |
| 22.09.2014 | Where Does Automated Essay Scoring Belong in K-12 Education? | Automated essay scoring is one of the most controversial applications of “big data” in edtech research. Writing is a deeply creative, emotive and personal endeavor. The idea that an objective, calculated algorithm is able to “grade” a stude... |
| 17.09.2014 | Newsela Raises $4.1M in Series A Funding | Newsela, a New York-based education technology startup, raised $4.1m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Owl Ventures with participation from The Knight Foundation and a number of individual investors, including Ron Beller and Jennife... |
| 19.08.2014 | How NewSchools Picks Its Investments | Our Seed Fund supports high potential entrepreneurs developing technology solutions for the biggest challenges in K-12 education. We look for areas where the power of technology can improve our education system and its ability to maximize t... |
| 24.07.2014 | Kaplan and Techstars Announce the 2014 Kaplan EdTech Accelerator Class | It was today announced that 12 education-technology startups have been officially selected to participate in the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator in New York City. Kaplan, the global education company and largest subsidiary of the Graham Holdings ... |
| 18.03.2014 | How One Teacher Achieved Insane Reading Growth Last Year | Tracy Fischetti's high school students improved their reading level scores about three times as much as expected last year, according to the state’s 2013 test scores.
Of all the English teachers in Florida, she scored the highest on the sta... |
| 23.12.2013 | Counting Down the Top S'Cool Tools for 2013: #11-20 | In the early days of TRL on MTV, top ten music video countdown lists ruled supreme. Everybody likes a list, right? But here at EdSurge, we don’t geek out at music videos; we geek out at edtech tools. Every week, our educator-specific INSTRU... |
| 11.10.2013 | Newsela Raises $1.2M in Seed Funding | Newsela, a NYC-based online platform to help students master reading and critical thinking, raised $1.2m in seed funding.
The round was led by New Schools Venture Fund and Kapor Capital, with participation from Kaplan Ventures, Silicon Badi... |
| 11.10.2013 | Newsela gets $1.2M to bring daily news & personalized learning to kids | Newsela is a website with hundreds of news articles targeted to schoolchildren, and it has raised $1.2 million in venture financing to bring even more information to kids.
Remember when you were at school and learning to read or master a ne... |
| 09.10.2013 | Newsela Raises $1.2M to Help Kids Read the News | This just hot off the press: Newsela announced a $1.2 million seed round led by NewSchools Venture Fund, with participation from Kapor Capital, Kaplan Ventures and Silicon Badia. Angels include Joannie Fischer & David Fischer, Brigette ... |
| 11.09.2013 | A Teacher Walks Into a Demo Day | This past February, Kaplan, Inc. announced the launch of the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, powered by Techstars. Based in NYC, the three-month program provides companies with funding, mentorship, co-working space and a solid network to support... |
| 11.09.2013 | TechStars-powered Kaplan EdTech Accelerator holds its first demo day in NYC | NEW YORK — We’re here at IAC’s headquarters for the first demo day from Kaplan’s EdTech Accelerator, which has the backing of startup accelerator powerhouse TechStars.
The three-month program, which ran from June to September, offered 10 ed... |
| 13.08.2013 | Teachers Say More | Memo to Sam at ClassDojo, Amy at EdCanvas, Dan at Newsela, Chris at Educreations, Jen at Kickboard, Jeff at NoRedInk and others: Want to hear what teachers think about your product?
We love it when people "kick & tell"--try ou... |
| 19.06.2013 | Fresh--and Free--Edtech Products This Summer | Here are some of the edtech products that we've heard have special offers this summer--like "free" for teachers. We don't know all the details of these offers, so read the fine print. In addition, many of these products may be bui... |
| 18.06.2013 | Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, Powered by TechStars, Announces First 10 Startups | Today, Kaplan kicked off its first EdTech Accelerator, powered by TechStars, with a crop of 10 startups.
The 3-month program, which takes place in the Kaplan offices in New York City, offers startups $20,000 and mentorship from advisors lik... |
| - | Newsela Announces $100 Million Series D Financing | NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading K-12 instructional content platform Newsela announced today a $100M Series D investment led by new investor Franklin Templeton and existing investor TCV, with participation by Owl Ventures, Ta... |
| - | Рост до $404 млрд к 2025 году, микрообучение и гонка маркетинговых бюджетов — как обстоят дела в EdTech | Индустрия EdTech или education technology подразумевает использование компьютерных технологий для упрощения и повышения эффективности образования. Это одна из индустрий, которая выиграла от режима изоляции во время пандемии коронавирусной и... |
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