I realized this week that I might be suffering from the Spring Break Blues. As someone who attended school in America, I grew up knowing and loving spring break and being off from school.
But now, as someone working at a business in the education sector, my feelings have turned from love to loathe.
Renaissance Learning, a K-12 assessment and learning analytics company, has commanded one of the highest prices in the history of ed tech acquisitions.
When I talk about Autism Expressed and its mission to teach digital skills to students with autism, many automatically assume that my company is a not-for-profit venture. But Autism Expressed is a for-profit company, a fact which sometimes surprises people.
Microsoft, the software giant, is collaborating with Pearson, the education product giant, to bring Pearson’s curriculum to the Windows 8 touchscreen world.
It’s not every day you get to meet the president of a country. For a private discussion. About your company. But this is exactly what happened this past August.
Building a strong team is about finding people who want to help achieve the vision of the company. So this is a Valentine’s Day greeting for the Edthena team.
I’m not one to burn my bra, but as a female founder and CEO of an ed-tech startup, I’ve started encountering a male-centered view of what an entrepreneur should look like.
With an ed-tech startup there are a lot of less exciting, but necessary moments in between the headline-setting, gold-medal events.
K12 Inc., the largest online provider of education for students before they reach college, announced plans to launch a new company with an investor group.
Managing a startup is challenging. I’m learning how to hire people, how to manage a team, and how to foster collaboration among people who don’t necessarily share the same physical space.
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