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Education
Supporting Teachers: The Path to Stronger Connections
Students and teachers have displayed remarkable courage in the face of overlapping traumas this past year. Building on that...
Technology
Educators, Digital Promise and Gradient Learning Discuss Picking the Right Tools for Learning
COVID-19 has upended the learning environment in unprecedented ways, while also creating opportunities for educators to...
Ventures
Handshake Secures Another $80M To Accelerate Virtual Recruiting and Diverse Hiring Practices
Handshake, the largest early career network helping millions of students from all backgrounds get hired and launch their...
Ventures
OpenClassrooms Secures $80 Million in Series C Funding
OpenClassrooms, a mission-driven category leader in online education-to-employment programs announces today it has raised $80...
Ventures
Newsela Announces $100 Million Series D Financing
NEW YORK – Leading K-12 instructional content platform Newsela announced today a $100M Series D investment led by new...
Ventures
Descomplica Raises USD 84.5M, the Biggest Round for an EdTech in Latin America
São Paulo, Brazil – Descomplica, the first EdTech company in Brazil to enter the higher education market, closed a new...
Science
CZI Awards Nearly $32 Million and Announces New Funding Opportunity to Advance Biomedical Imaging
Imaging of proteins, cells, and tissues is critical to understanding health and disease. Today, the Chan Zuckerberg...
Education
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Supports Eruditus In Increasing Access to Education Across the Globe
The Eruditus group, consisting of Eruditus Executive Education (www.eruditus.com) and its online division EMERITUS...
Science
CZI Launches New Effort to Support Technology Development in Imaging
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced a new effort to support innovations in imaging technology that could be...
Education
Fast Company: How Technology Can Amplify Great Teaching
This piece was published in Fast Company on December 18, 2019. Great teachers have always used all the tools available to...
Science
Supporting State Science and Technology Policy Fellows
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $448,550 in funding to support science and technology policy...
Science
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $5 Million for Open Source Software Projects Essential to Science
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $5 million in funding to support open source software projects that are...
Science
Expanding Computational Skills in Science to Support Research
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced $1.65 million and $1 million...
Science
Supporting a Patient-Led Movement to Cure ALS — and Other Rare Diseases
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. (September 25, 2019) — The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) today announced $453,000 in funding for I...
Education
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Joins 10th Annual ASU GSV
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced its participation in the 10th annual ASU GSV Summit, sharing a series of...
Science
CZI Awards $17 Million to Bring More Engineering Expertise to Biomedical Imaging
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $17 million in funding and its selection of 17 CZI Imaging Scientists...
Education
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Joins SXSW
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced it will participate in South by Southwest (SXSW), sharing a series of...