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LeVar Burton earned fame as an actor in TV series such as Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Reading Rainbow. Now he hopes to leverage that fame as an entrepreneur behind the new RRKidz reading app for kids on …
Web development and basic coding skills shouldn’t be the mysterious domain of a handful of overpaid engineers, and if the Codecademy founders have anything to say about it, the boundaries of that domain will soon be rapidly expanding.
This small …
When you and I were kids, we played with (and learned from) toys like Lego and handmade puppets. These days, kids are turning to digital gadgets like the iPad.
Launchpad Toys wants to create a suite of creative play tools …
Apple on Monday released details on its new low-end iMac computer, which targets educators.
The $999 desktop will only be available in bulk purchasing from Apple from its Higher Educational online store, so average consumers are out of luck.
The …
Facebook Tuesday retooled its Facebook for Businesses splash page with an emphasis on educating small businesses on using its site.
The new splash page features step-by-step online guides aimed at helping small businesses understand and use Facebook Pages, ads, sponsored …
Amazon on Monday announced that it would now offer students the option to rent digital textbooks, advertising that customers can save up to 80% off textbook list prices.
Buying textbooks in college has been a costly endeavor for many years, …
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Prominent venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote a provocative blog post back in 2008 called Hacking Education, in which he expressed frustration with our current educational institutions and called for replacing them with a grand hack, an internet-enabled “peer production, collaboration, …
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Many in the school reform camp and their supporters in the Silicon Valley and Foundation crowds are crying out for education “disruption”, a word being tossed around very casually these days. Because it works in business, they understandably believe that …
If only schools were addictive like Farmville, maybe we could fix our education system.
That’s the thinking behind a partnership announced today between the high-profile charter school network KIPP and test-prep startup Grockit, which applies social gaming principles to studying. …
Update: Intel has clarified some aspects of this story. Find its statement below.
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Intel seems hot for ambitious education tablet startup Kno. Intel Capital is leading a new $30 million funding round in the company (along with Conde Nast …
The classroom is no place for fighting. Unless it’s between education startups.
In a move that signals an aggressive expansion into the online learning platform market, social learning startup Grockit is hiring Rusty Greiff as chief strategy and development officer. …
I was a big fan of Internet training site Grovo when we covered it in October, and now the site is relaunching with a cleaner interface that opens up more of its content to the public and a premium service.…
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The economics behind thin-client computers — machines designed to run primarily off networked computing resources rather than local processors — are starting to …
Rupert Murdoch is media’s ultimate contrarian, with a reputation for plunging into new businesses well before others agree on their promise. So could his newfound enthusiasm for education startups give the sector a boost?
Last week, New York was abuzz …
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, on Oprah today to discuss his $100 million education foundation, Startup:Education.
Zuckerberg officially announced the foundation, which will go towards helping Newark’s …
EME International is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them …
Apple reported today that iTunes U — its catalog of educational files on iTunes — has topped 300 million downloads following a flurry of new content.
The section now offers more than 350,000 audio and video files from over 800 …
Nature Education — the educational arm of Nature Publishing Group — launched a mobile version of its open-access science library Scitable today — bringing its extensive library of science articles and social networking features to any student, teacher, or researcher …
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(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.)
If you’ve had a great career what happens to all your knowledge and experience when you …
Guest Post
(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.)
Some of the most important business lessons are learned in the most unlikely ways. At Ardent I learned …
