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LinkIt! Built the Missing Layer Between School Data and the Next Decision
Schools were drowning in scores, spreadsheets and good intentions. LinkIt! made a business out of connecting the evidence to the intervention - then put former educators beside the software to make sure districts actually use it.
Aaron Feuer Turned a Student Survey Into a 15-Million-Student Company
A bill he helped pass as a teenager changed little. So the Los Angeles student organizer learned a durable founder lesson: institutions often move when someone gives them a tool, not merely an argument.
The Survey That Grew Up: How a Yale Dorm Project Reads 15 Million Kids
It began as a way to ask students what they thought of school. A decade and $105 million later, Panorama reads the data of 15 million American kids - and now wants its AI to write the next move.
Newsela
Newsela began with a useful classroom trick: make the same story readable at five levels. Thirteen years later, it is assembling instruction, assessment and student data into one district-sized system - without giving up the editorial engine that made teachers notice.