Altitude Learning
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| Formerly | AltSchool |
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| Company type | Private public benefit corporation |
| Industry | Education |
| Founded | 2013 |
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| Headquarters | San Francisco , United States |
Area served | United States |
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| Website | www |
Altitude Learning (formerly AltSchool) is an American education and technology company founded in 2013. It is headquartered in San Francisco.
History
[edit]Max Ventilla founded AltSchool in 2013 as a company that operated schools built around a personalized learning model.[2] The company created a series of small schools based on this model, where students were involved in creating personalized projects for themselves.[3] Students and teachers created individual "playlists" of tasks and projects for each student. Students' progress was streamed to parents using a portal app.[4] In 2014, the company raised $33 million of venture capital funding.[5] In 2015, AltSchool raised $100 million in funding.[6]
By 2016, the company had opened six schools in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Brooklyn.[7][8] That year, the company partnered with three schools in California and Virginia.[9] In 2017, AltSchool launched a small middle school in New York City's Union Square.[10]
The company later began closing or divesting from its schools. In 2019, AltSchool ceased operating schools directly and rebranded as Altitude Learning, an educational software company.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ Chang, Richard (April 10, 2017). "CA's Top Superintendent Leaves for Ed Tech Startup AltSchool". The Journal.
- ^ "With $100 Million From Silicon Valley Elite, AltSchool Takes New Approach To Classroom Learning". Forbes. May 4, 2016.
AltSchool opened its own private schools and has stocked them with top educators and technologists, beginning with a 20-student one-room schoolhouse type location in 2013.
- ^ Hope King (March 20, 2016). "A morning at the AltSchool, an education startup that Silicon Valley is crazy about". CNN.
- ^ Adam Lashinsky (March 7, 2016). "How AltSchool Experiments in Education". Fortune.
- ^ Leena Rao (March 18, 2014). "Former Googler's AltSchool Raises $33M From Founders Fund And A16Z To Reimagine Primary Education".
- ^ "With $100 Million From Silicon Valley Elite, AltSchool Takes New Approach To Classroom Learning". Forbes. May 4, 2016.
- ^ Rebecca Mead (March 7, 2016). "Learn Different: Silicon Valley disrupts education". New Yorker.
- ^ Gina Bellafante (December 4, 2015). "The Bold Idea Behind a Small Brooklyn School". New York Times.
- ^ "Three schools partner with AltSchool". SFGate. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
- ^ Brody, Leslie (October 10, 2017). "California Startup Opens Alternative Lab School in Manhattan". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Harris, Ainsley (2019-06-28). "AltSchool rebrands itself Altitude Learning as cofounders step aside". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-07-21.