Coding exposure: 900 students develop their first programs at App Day Inside the gymnasium on Friday at Rainier Beach High School was a scene best described as organized chaos. While DJ Midnight Mike… Read More
Startup Spotlight: CollegeMapper helps high school students get into college Growing up with a family that had no college graduates and inside a house that was without plumbing for 12 years,… Read More
An open letter to wannabe edtech entrepreneurs: Welcome to the crowd Hey, thanks for your tweet asking if you should do an edtech startup based on what I saw at this… Read More
Amazon: Education’s passive lurker gets aggressive If you want to see the future of Amazon in education, don’t look to Seattle. Look to Sao Paulo. For… Read More
Alma wants to help ease administrative burden for educators with cloud-based platform While some K-12 schools may use a modern tech solution that performs one task really well — like information management systems… Read More
In one month, 500K students sign up for Code.org’s computer science 101 course Code.org is on a mission to get more kids learning about computer science, and so far, the Seattle-based non-profit seems to… Read More
The Amazon.com for online training courses: OpenSesame raises $8.1M OpenSesame, which hosts the world’s largest hub of online training courses, has raised $8 million in a Series A round… Read More
Ex-Amazonians raise $1.1M for online instruction platform Everpath It’s been less than a month since the folks at Everpath graduated from Techstars Seattle, but things are already rolling for… Read More
Surface giveaway: Microsoft seeding schools with 10,000 free tablets for teachers Whenever you go to a big conference, the freebies are always a nice little add-on. Sometimes it’s a sweet keychain… Read More
