Dive Summary:

• Kickboard, the student performance analytics startup, announced today it had procured $2 million in series A financing from New Markets Venture Partners, Two Sigma Ventures and a few angel investors.
• Kickboard's data analytics platform tracks student performance, providing teachers with accessible graphs and progress reports to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their teaching.
• Kickboard officially launched in the fall of 2012 and their platform is being used in 200 schools across 20 states.

From the article:

"... By providing realtime visibility into student performance both in and out of the classroom, Kickboard aims to give teachers the kind of information they need to make meaningful changes to instruction, interventions and to help them personalize the learning process according to each student’s individual needs. Schools are keen to begin implementing data-driven teaching methods, Medbery tells us, and by giving them access to a deeper set of information whenever they need it, Kickboard is making it easier to facilitate collaboration among teachers and better communication with parents — or at least that’s the idea. ..."