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EdTech Funding
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It is said that 90% of startups experience this.
What is Failure
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Is a way to raise money online by asking for small contributions from many supporters often those in your personal network.
What is Crowdfunding
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A means to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning.
What is Formative Assessment
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A online foundation resource that makes it easy to turn foundations into funders.
What is The Foundation Center's Foundation Directory
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This resource maintained by the Office of Communications and Outreach and the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education in partnership with the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative makes it easier to find digital teaching and learning resources created and maintained by the federal government and public and private organizations.
What is FREE (The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE)
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This Department of Education program has funded 92 projects seeking to provide innovative solutions to common education challenges. These grants allow eligible entities to expand and develop innovative practices that can serve as models of best practices and allow eligible entities to work in partnership with the private sector and the philanthropic community.
What is INVESTING IN INNOVATION FUND (I3) Grant
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This Wisconsin based gaming company is on a mission to deliver best-in-class teaching solutions that foster 21st-century skills through experiential learning.
What is Filament Games
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This IES program was established under the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 with the purpose of strengthening the role of innovative small business concerns in Federally-funded research and development (R&D). This program provides awards for $1.5 million or more for technology development.
What is IES SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Grant
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A Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education.
What is FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)
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This organization raises philanthropic capital from individual and institutional investors, and then invest those funds to support education entrepreneurs who are transforming public education. They have supported innovative thinkers with $9 million in funding invested in ed tech start-ups.
What is NewSchoolsVenture Fund