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classroom.cloud Turns the School Screen Into a Safeguarding Signal
A British software veteran took three awkward school jobs - teaching, device support and online safety - and put them in one browser tab. The clever part is not watching screens; it is deciding which signals deserve a human response.
Cambium Bought the Edtech Toolbox. Then It Started Rearranging the Drawers.
The $900 million take-private turned Cambium into a collection of specialist K-12 brands. Its latest move - merging two of the best known - reveals where the house-of-brands strategy bends.
The Homework Camera That Became Indonesia's $27 Million Bet on Better Math
CoLearn turned a familiar after-school problem - a student stuck on one equation - into a mobile funnel for live, small-group tutoring. Its wager is that Indonesia's education gap is not only about access, but confidence, explanation and the quality of the teacher on the other side of the screen.
The Charter Network That Beat the Odds - and the Rankings
A single Harlem school that opened with 165 kids in 2006 now tops New York State's math rankings and expands into Florida. Here is how Success Academy built it, and who is paying for it.
The Company Running Public Schools Like a Network - and Teaching Courage on Tuesdays
National Heritage Academies has spent three decades turning a Grand Rapids experiment into a 103-school operating system. Its pitch is consistency: centralized support, measurable academics and a character curriculum built around one virtue at a time.
HMH
It started as a Boston book publisher in 1832. Today HMH wants to be the software layer between the test a student takes and the lesson they get next.
LiveSchool
LiveSchool is a K-12 behavior tracking and rewards platform built to make Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) simple to run at scale. Teachers award or deduct points in seconds from a phone or browser, students redeem points in a paperless school rewards store, and administrators watch school culture data update in real time. Founded in Nashville in 2011 by former middle-school teacher Matt Rubinstein, the company helps roughly 1,200+ schools shift the focus from punishment to recognition, sending families a weekly behavior recap so students, teachers, and parents stay on the same team.
Uncommon Schools
Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that starts and runs outstanding urban public charter schools designed to close the achievement gap and prepare students from low-income communities to graduate from college. Founded around North Star Academy in Newark in 1997 and relaunched as a multi-state network in 2005, Uncommon operates roughly 53 K-12 schools serving about 20,000 students across New York City, Newark, Camden, Rochester, Troy, and Boston. Beyond running schools, it is a national force in teacher development - home to Doug Lemov's 'Teach Like a Champion' methodology - and pairs rigorous, data-driven instruction with long-term alumni college coaching.
ComputerLand of Silicon Valley
ComputerLand of Silicon Valley (legally CCT Technologies Inc.) is a San Jose-based technology solutions provider and value-added reseller founded in 1991. Over three decades it grew from a storefront computer sales-and-service shop into a full-service IT partner delivering cloud, cybersecurity, managed services, network infrastructure, virtualization, unified communications and IT logistics to government agencies, K-12 and higher-education institutions, and commercial businesses across California and beyond. A longtime approved E-Rate and NASPO ValuePoint reseller and Microsoft authorized education reseller, the company was acquired by cloud and cybersecurity firm ISSQUARED Inc. on May 1, 2024.
NoRedInk
NoRedInk is a K-12 writing platform used in more than 10,000 schools that helps students in grades 3-12 become stronger writers through adaptive, interest-based exercises, scaffolded composition tools, and an AI-powered Grading Assistant that cuts teacher grading time roughly in half. Founded in 2012 by former Chicago English teacher Jeff Scheur, the company builds around a taxonomy of common student writing errors and personalizes practice using topics students actually care about. Students have completed billions of exercises on the platform.
Classkick
Classkick is a Chicago-based education technology company that makes a digital formative-assessment platform where teachers watch students work in real time and give instant feedback. Founded by former Teach for America math teacher and ex-Google/YouTube engineer Andrew Rowland, the tool lets teachers build or import interactive assignments, draw directly on each student's canvas, drop reusable feedback stickers, and auto-grade multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank answers. Students can raise a virtual hand for help - even anonymously - and ask peers. Used by more than 10 million users across all 50 U.S. states and dozens of countries, Classkick's pitch is simple: more tries for kids every day, and less grading busywork for teachers.
CodeHS
CodeHS is a K-12 computer science education platform that gives schools everything they need to teach coding: a browser-based coding environment, a full standards-aligned curriculum spanning elementary through AP, teacher tools for grading and progress tracking, professional development, and industry certifications. Founded in 2012 by two Stanford CS section leaders, Jeremy Keeshin and Zach Galant, it now reaches millions of students and thousands of schools, and in 2025 acquired the K-8 creative coding platform Tynker.
EdConnective
EdConnective is a Richmond, Virginia edtech company that delivers virtual-first, one-to-one instructional coaching for teachers, coaches, and school leaders. Founded by Will Morris, it records classroom instruction, has expert coaches analyze the footage, and returns bite-sized, actionable video feedback within about 48 hours - turning district priorities into everyday classroom practice. The company reports roughly 35-40% gains in student engagement, rigor, and content mastery, and pairs its coaching with interactive workshops and PLC facilitation for educator teams.
Generation Citizen
Generation Citizen is a national nonprofit that brings action-oriented civics education into middle and high school classrooms. Founded as a 2008 student project at Brown University, it partners with schools and districts to run a project-based curriculum in which students identify a local issue, research it, and take real civic action - then present their work at community 'Civics Day' showcases. The organization also advocates for state and federal policy that funds equitable civic learning. It has reached more than 250,000 students and, in recent years, serves roughly 25,000 students annually across 150+ schools in eight states.
Reportwell
Reportwell is a Detroit-based, AI-powered compliance and reporting platform built for the K-12 education world - charter school authorizers, districts, agencies, and the schools they oversee. Founded in 2023 by a team of former education agency and school leaders, it scans for new laws, board decisions, and regulatory shifts, keeps policy documents current automatically, and answers plain-language legal questions through an AI chat. The goal is simple: turn the dreaded audit scramble into a routine, so educators can spend less time on paperwork and more time on students.
Super Teacher
Super Teacher is a New York-based edtech company building an AI-powered tutoring app for elementary school students. Founded in 2022 by former Google product manager and NYC math teacher Tim Novikoff, it delivers unlimited, conversational one-on-one tutoring in reading and math for roughly $15 a month - a fraction of the cost of a human tutor. Unlike most AI education tools, Super Teacher avoids large language model guesswork in favor of a deterministic content system designed to always give correct answers. Around 20,000 families have signed up, and public schools in New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii now use the app in classrooms.
Scientific Learning, a Carnegie Learning Company
Scientific Learning, now part of Carnegie Learning, builds neuroscience-based reading and language software that rewires how struggling readers process language. Its flagship Fast ForWord program treats reading difficulty at its root - the brain's ability to process sound and sequence information - rather than drilling worksheets. Born from lab research by four scientists in 1996 and acquired by Carnegie Learning in 2020, the company has delivered cognitive-skills and reading interventions to students in more than 40 countries, backed by decades of peer-reviewed research.
Amplify
Amplify is a New York-based K-12 education company that builds core and supplemental curriculum and assessments in literacy, math, and science, all grounded in the science of reading and used to turn student data into instructional support for teachers. Born as Wireless Generation in 2000 and now backed by Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, its programs - including Amplify CKLA, Amplify Science, Amplify Desmos Math, Boost Reading, and mCLASS - reach more than 18 million students and teachers across all 50 states.
zSpace, Inc.
zSpace builds headset-free augmented and virtual reality learning systems that let students hold and manipulate lifelike 3D objects on a laptop or all-in-one screen using a stylus and head-tracking glasses. The platform powers STEM and career-and-technical-education programs - from dissecting a virtual frog to wiring a circuit or exploring human anatomy - in thousands of U.S. school districts and 50-plus countries. Founded in 2007 as Infinite Z and renamed zSpace in 2013, the San Jose company went public on the Nasdaq in December 2024 under the ticker ZSPC.
Crimson Education
Crimson Education is a New Zealand-founded edtech company that helps ambitious students win places at the world's most selective universities - the Ivy League, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford and beyond. Through a mix of data, AI tools and a global network of roughly 3,000 tutors and former admissions officers, it offers admissions consulting, tutoring, extracurricular mentoring and its own accredited online high school, Crimson Global Academy. Founded in 2013, it became Australasia's first edtech unicorn in November 2024 at a NZ$1 billion valuation.
Paper
Paper is a Montreal-based education technology company that contracts with K-12 public school districts to give students unlimited, 24/7 access to live online tutoring, writing feedback, and college-and-career planning tools at no cost to families. Founded in 2014 as GradeSlam, it scaled to serve millions of students across hundreds of districts, reached unicorn status with a 2022 Series D, then weathered a sharp contraction in 2024 as pandemic-era school funding dried up.