Tag: Edtech
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Encantos Founder Steven Wolfe Pereira on His Multicultural Teaching and Publishing Platform
On this episode of Office Hours, host Spencer Rascoff talks with Steven Wolfe Pereira about Encantos, a platform designed to help kids learn 21st century skills through storytelling. Pereira got his start as an entrepreneur when he was young, sel…
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Riot Games Donates $2 Million to Give South LA Students Access to Tech Education
“League of Legends” video game developer Riot Games is donating over $2 million to social impact real estate fund SoLa Impact’s I CAN Foundation to help the organization bolster technology education programs for underserved communities in South Los An…
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This USC Professor’s Course Is Churning Out Startup Founders
Burcin Becerik-Gerber was 22 years old when a catastrophic earthquake hit Turkey in 1999. Though she emerged from the 7.6 magnitude quake unharmed, the disaster killed over 17,000, including a number of Gerber’s own friends. That tragedy never left Ge…
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Why Closegap Wants to Keep the Adversity, but Optimize Student Support
Rachel Miller, founder and CEO of Closegap, has always been interested in helping kids who did not win the “birth lottery,” as she calls it.She is one of them.Growing up, her mother had schizoaffective disorder, but did not take medication for it. Mil…
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Parents Say LAUSD’s Virtual Learning Spending Spree Had Mixed Results
In the sprint to remake education during the pandemic, Los Angeles Unified School District armed half a million students with internet and devices to stay connected, but experts and parents said that its efforts to teach online sometimes fell short an…
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Here’s How Much Tech Companies Made From LA Unified School District During the Pandemic
In the early days of the pandemic, there was a mad dash to get technology and broadband internet service into students’ homes. About 1 in 3 Los Angeles Unified School District families didn’t have a desktop or laptop computer or high-speed internet,…
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Shareholders Approve Cornerstone OnDemand’s $5.23 Billion Deal to Go Private
Cornerstone OnDemand, the Santa Monica–based learning and talent management software company, is shaking things up. Shareholders approved on Tuesday a $5.2 billion deal to take the company private. In an all-cash transaction, Clearlake Capital Group (…
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Edtech Curious Cardinals Taps College Students for Mentorship and Expands the Notion of What a Course Can Be
Audrey Wisch was teaching English to a member of Stanford’s custodial staff who didn’t speak English when the seeds for her edtech company were planted.A Stanford freshman majoring in history at the time, she had never taught before, but quickly reali…
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Frustrated with LAUSD’s COVID Dashboard, These Parents Created Their Own
Jorge A. Caballero agonized over whether to send his toddler to preschool, but ultimately decided he couldn’t teach his child how to socialize and share with other children at home. On the third day of school, he received the news all parents dread: H…