Education.com Holdings, a web site providing information -- mostly for parents -- on various education and child-raising topics (from bullying to financing college tuition), has raised $5.3 million in second-round preferred stock, reports VentureWire.

Last year, the Redwood City, Calif., company snagged $9.75 million in a second round of venture funding from Azure Capital Partners, California Technology Ventures and Telesoft Partners.