June was a fantastic month for The CourseBook. Alexandre Scialom, one of 23 entrepreneurs in the Kauffman Labs Education Ventures Program, was named both the first prize winner in the 2011 Milken PennGSE Education Business Plan Competition, as well as the winner of the Hewlett Foundation’s Startl Prize for Open Educational Resources. The two awards include a total [...]
A look back at disruptED 4.0 2011 PitchDay 2011 which is a part of the second annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, a flagship event of President Obama’s Startup America. disruptED looks for entrepreneurs and companies with ideas to change k-12 in the way we all know it needs to be – going out there, being [...]
Bellwether Education Partners has released a new white paper Steering Capital: Optimizing Financial Support for Innovation in Public Education. In the paper, co-author Julie Petersen and I chart a path forward for how the public, private and nonprofit sectors can work together to advance education innovation. Though there is broad consensus on the need for [...]
Toontastic (a Startl Design Boost Company) is holding their Summer ‘Tooning Story Contest. The price of the Toontastic app will be $.99 during the content. Kids of all ages are invited to recreate their favorite Summer Reading books as cartoons using Toontastic. Once submissions are in at the end of June, we’ll show off all the cartoons [...]
Enter by July 15 – The Challenge seeks to crowdsource ideas from the public in three areas of education in dire need of improvement: student learning, family engagement and teacher effectiveness.
Late Nite Labs gave an impressive pitch at this week’s Venture Capital in Education Summit 2011…READ ON!
