The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2014

In this second installment, software engineer Ben Slivka finally ships his educational software but finds his real customer base isn’t what he expected. CHAPTER 20: Slivka’s Sci-Fi Software Gets Shipped. They were software writers, and good ones. Slivka says software engineers are not like journalists.

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Software Education Microsoft Company 67

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

His efforts paid off: he boosted his SAT score by more than 350 points and landed a spot in Yale’s class of 2006. After 25 hours of work on the software and 10 hours of one-on-one time with Phan, one student's score jumped from 1450 to better than 1500, putting her in the top one percent of students globally, says Phan.

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Meeting Khan Academy Assessment Study 89

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

His efforts paid off: he boosted his SAT score by more than 350 points and landed a spot in Yale’s class of 2006. After 25 hours of work on the software and 10 hours of one-on-one time with Phan, one student's score jumped from 1450 to better than 1500, putting her in the top one percent of students globally, says Phan.

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Meeting Khan Academy Assessment Study 82

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The school emphasizes teaching over research, hiring and rewarding professors on the basis of their classroom performance, says Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd’s president since 2006. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. And it places women in leadership positions throughout the school.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85