Jefferson Education Accelerator Picks First Partner

The Jefferson Education Accelerator, an effort by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education to help efficacious educational technology companies, has found its first partner company: the online learning platform provider Echo360. The accelerator supports companies that have progressed past the start-up stage and provides services such as consulting, mentoring and efficacy research. A spokesperson for the JEA said information about which organizations will help the accelerator research the efficacy of partnering with ed-tech companies will be released in the coming months.