A venture fund formed by Sesame Workshop and New York-based Collaborative Fund early this year has made its first investment in a tutoring platform called Yup. Specifically, Yup (formerly known as ...

After Yup’s recent raise, which included the first ever investment by Sesame Street’s venture fund, their focus is threefold. First, determining the economics of their pricing scheme for students.

Yup'ik and Iñupiaq spelling bees keep native Alaskan languages alive In Alaska, a seventh grader has won the Yup'ik spelling bee and a fifth grader has won the Iñupiat spelling bee.

Yup'ik is the most commonly spoken Native language in Alaska, but Nikki Corbett couldn't find any Yup'ik books to teach her kids the language. She wanted to fix that.