Forbes – Adriana Lopez
“For the past four years, Matt Candler has obsessed over students, families and teachers, despite the existing, outdated school system around them. Finally with 44 education startups under his belt, he’s starting to see the future of schools change in ways he had only imagined with 4.0 Schools, a non-profit incubator for education-based startups. “4.0 Schools exists because there are no places to innovate schools and education in The United States,” said Candler, 4.0’s Founder and CEO. “But, we are not an accelerator for startups. We are a community of people re-imagining the future of schools.” In 2010, 4.0 Schools was founded in New Orleans on the belief that schools could be made dramatically better. However, outdated systems and the hierarchy that surrounds education creates inefficiencies that make any kind of change nearly impossible. 4.0 Schools equips people with the resources needed to create those changes, using an entrepreneurial mindset. The goal is to create startups or even new school concepts that can help shape the future of schools.”(more)