People of Color Are Taking Over Edtech

When Brandon Byrd applied for a job at ThinkCERCA, a Chicago-based educational technology startup for critical thinking and literacy, he was put through the usual gamut of interviews and creating lesson plans. One lesson involved assessing documents related to the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first race ethnicity law in America. They were asked to question […]

World of Warcraft in the streets, edtech MMO in the sheets

SPONSORED: Presented by Intel Immersed Games is an early-stage edtech (educational technology) startup unlike any other, the brainchild of a diehard MMORPG player and PhD candidate Lindsey Tropf, born in the wake of a World-of-Warcraft­triggered epiphany. And suddenly Tropf found herself the founder and CEO of a game company. The WoW moment “I had been […]