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Education is one of those things everyone has an opinion about and nobody thinks is working well enough. The founders in this section agree, and they’re doing something about it. They’re building schools, platforms, tools, and programs that reimagine how people learn.

These interviews span the full education spectrum. K-12. Higher ed. Corporate training. Online learning. EdTech. Tutoring. Test prep. The kind of education that happens in classrooms and the kind that happens everywhere else. Because learning doesn’t stop when school does.

What makes these founders interesting is the variety of their approaches. Some are working within the system. Others are building around it. A few are trying to blow it up entirely. All of them have strong opinions about what’s broken and thoughtful ideas about how to fix it.

You’ll find conversations about curriculum design, student engagement, the role of technology in learning, and the economics of education. Which, it turns out, are complicated. Also the challenge of measuring outcomes. Because “did the students learn something” is a surprisingly hard question to answer well. If you care about education, these are conversations worth having.

Deborah Ahenkorah – Founder of the Golden Baobab Prize

Deborah Ahenkorah is the co-founder and executive director of the Golden Baobab Prize, a literary award that inspires African writers to create stories for young readers. She graduated from Bryn…

Meet Deborah Ahenkorah – Founder of the Golden Baobab Prize

Richard Price – Founder of Academia.edu

Richard Price did a Ph.D at Oxford in philosophy. Alongside his PhD, he founded a few startups, including a Craigslist for Oxford (Liveout.co.uk) and a Facebook app that was the…

Meet Richard Price – Founder of Academia.edu

Ryan Cruse – Co-Founder of Warm Current

Ryan Cruse is an avid outdoorsman and environmentalist who is constantly trying to blur the lines between fun, work and doing good. He is the co-founder and director of outreach…

Meet Ryan Cruse – Co-Founder of Warm Current

Jon Reifschneider – Founder and CEO of 31Projects

Jon Reifschneider is founder and CEO of 31Projects, an online platform that connects companies with talented students through short-term projects and crowdsourcing-style competitions. Prior to founding 31Projects, Jon assisted in…

Meet Jon Reifschneider – Founder and CEO of 31Projects

Adelaide Zindler – Award-Winning Author and Anti-Autism Coach

Award-winning author of the book, “Anti-Autism,” and National Child Entrepreneur examiner who co-chaired the largest event for preschool administrators in San Diego history, Adelaide “Home Office Mommy” Zindler is the…

Meet Adelaide Zindler – Award-Winning Author and Anti-Autism Coach

Mike Rosich – Co-Founder of MoreThanGrades.com

Mike Rosich is the co-founder of MoreThanGrades.com, a website that connects students with colleges, and colleges with students. The website was founded by Mike when he was a freshman attending…

Meet Mike Rosich – Co-Founder of MoreThanGrades.com

Corinne Dillon – Founder and CEO of Discover Mandarin

Corinne Dillon is the founder and CEO of Discover Mandarin, which connects professionally trained, Beijing-based Mandarin instructors with Chinese language students for personalized one-on-one classes over the Internet. Corinne is…

Meet Corinne Dillon – Founder and CEO of Discover Mandarin

Frank Napolitano – President and CEO of GlobalFit

Frank Napolitano joined GlobalFit (www.globalfit.com) in 2006 as President and CEO. He plays a key role in helping the company develop health and wellness programs for businesses. Using wellness education,…

Meet Frank Napolitano – President and CEO of GlobalFit

Kathy Pickus – Co-founder of Dot Girl Products

Kathy Pickus is the co-founder of Dot Girl Products, a fast-growing personal care products company on a mission to make puberty for young girls a whole lot better and more…

Meet Kathy Pickus – Co-founder of Dot Girl Products

Daniel Butt – Founder and CEO of NoodleStorm

Daniel Butt founded NoodleStorm.com because he wanted to help make the world more efficient. When he had the idea for this online student consulting marketplace, he dropped everything he was…

Meet Daniel Butt – Founder and CEO of NoodleStorm

Matthew Kenney – President of Kenney College

Dr. Matthew G. Kenney is President of Kenney College,  a specialized graduate school offering a MBA in Entrepreneurship. He founded Kenney College, which is licensed by the Florida Department of…

Meet Matthew Kenney – President of Kenney College

Sue Wilkowski – Teacher, Artist, Author & Founder of textSAT

Sue is the co-founder of textSAT,  a national service that delivers daily SAT learning tips, via text message, thus offering teens and tweens a way to be SAT proactive, minus…

Meet Sue Wilkowski – Teacher, Artist, Author & Founder of textSAT

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