The organization, EducationSuperHighway, aims at bringing broadband into schools to help children learn. by Don Reisinger and Don Reisinger December 4, 2013 6:04 AM PST Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates have dropped cash into a not-for-profit through their respective foundations. EducationSuperHighway raised $9 million in a recently closed funding round led by Zuckerberg's Startup:Education fund and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the organization told TechCrunch on Wednesday. According to TechCrunch, the funding will be used by the not-for-profit for everything from lobbying government to enhancing its broadband-rollout efforts. EducationSuperHighway's Web site claims that 80 percent of public schools in the US "lack fast enough Internet speeds to prepare our students for increasingly digital education." The not-for-profit offers a school speedtest on its site and aims to help those schools with slow broadband speeds to improve them. The organization achieves that goal by helping them weave through high-speed Internet "roadblocks."
The organization, EducationSuperHighway, aims at bringing broadband into schools to help children learn.
December 4, 2013 6:04 AM PST
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates have dropped cash into a not-for-profit through their respective foundations.
EducationSuperHighway raised $9 million in a recently closed funding round led by Zuckerberg's Startup:Education fund and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the organization told TechCrunch on Wednesday. According to TechCrunch, the funding will be used by the not-for-profit for everything from lobbying government to enhancing its broadband-rollout efforts.
EducationSuperHighway's Web site claims that 80 percent of public schools in the US "lack fast enough Internet speeds to prepare our students for increasingly digital education." The not-for-profit offers a school speedtest on its site and aims to help those schools with slow broadband speeds to improve them. The organization achieves that goal by helping them weave through high-speed Internet "roadblocks."
