Dive Brief:
- The Jefferson Education Accelerator at UVA’s Curry School of Education has selected AIR as its preferred research partner.
- The newly launched JEA named Echo360 as its first company to join the accelerator last month, adding the American Institutes for Research as a resource for evaluating new technologies and products.
- JEA plans to name four other companies to the accelerator this year, all that have moved past startup and are focusing on evaluation and scaling.
Dive Insight:
Ed tech incubators often give startups a place to finalize beta products and get off the ground but the Jefferson Education Accelerator has its sights on companies that are a little further along. Echo360 offers a student engagement platform for students to communicate with peers and faculty before, during, and after class. The company recently partnered with Achieving the Dream to test the relationship between student engagement and outcomes.