Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Erika Sandstrom, who currently works with students in grades 4-8 in Massachusetts, created a custom, animated template–something she calls “ Breathing Bubbles ”–that helps her students with mindfulness and breathing exercises. This ability to personalize each exercise improved student engagement. That’s over ten hours a week.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

Eight board members are currently CEOs, seven have founded non-profits, and 11 have founded companies. Boards can exercise varying levels of oversight of internal operations. “Success Academy’s board members and supporters are among the most sophisticated and highly respected business men and women in the world,” they wrote.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The Center for American Progress also took a look “Inside the Financial Holdings of Billionaire Betsy DeVos,” and the list of education- and tech-related investments is long: KinderCare Education, the childcare company. Theranos, the troubled blood-testing company. The for-profit college company Sextant Education.

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