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Guido KovalskysContributorGuido Kovalskys is founder and CEO of Nearpod.We hear it again and again: The U.S. K-12 education system is in cri
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sis.In its 2015 report, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, otherwise known as The Nation s Report Card, revealed that just one-third of eighth graders and one-quarter of twelfth graders per
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formed at or above proficient in math. In reading comprehension, the performance was only marginally better.Even more concerning is the fact that spending per student has doubled over the past 40 years, but achievement has not. To further add to the complexity, many schools are now beset with budget cuts, teacher shortages and overflowing classrooms. The challenges are as complicated as they are entrenched, and fierce political disagreements, as well as the fragmented nature of the U.S. school system, have stunted progre
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ss.In response to these struggles, it is no surprise that so many entrepreneurs decided to start educational technology edtec Wrlb Taylor Swift and other big names join the music industry s campaign against YouTube
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s is on-trend. Visually, the startup, which is best-known as an infographic marketplace, raised $8.1 million in Series A funding onl
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y last month.The startup is poised to launch real-time data support and Google Drive integration allowing inf
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ographics to be created based on live data: handy for financial sites. Other plans include developing a video info graphic generator.Companies that have used the platform include The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera and Yahoo.The service has both free and paid versions and claims about 1 million users who have created over 1.7 million & 8216;infograms ;.Competitors include PictoChart and Tableau though the latter would perhaps be best described as more complex and harder to learnInfogr.am was founded 2 years ago by engineers Uldis Leiterts, Raimonds Kaze and Alise Semjonova.