Teaching K-12 Math Online: Reasoning Mind CEO Alex Khachatryan (Part 3)

SM: Tell me more about your design principles. What are the core principles of the system? AK: The first shift was moving towards a curriculum program versus a math club environment. We also knew we had to deliver our curriculum to students in a very interactive way. We decided to take a curriculum that had

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Teaching K-12 Math Online: Reasoning Mind CEO Alex Khachatryan (Part 2)

SM: What year did the math camp occur? AK: That was around 1998. It was a Spartan moment in my thinking. If it took that much effort for my wife and I to get our son interested in mathematics, including paying $3,000 for a summer camp, which is something that not every parent is going to

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Teaching K-12 Math Online: Reasoning Mind CEO Alex Khachatryan (Part 1)

SM: Let’s start with a bit of your history. Where do you come from? AK: I am from the former Soviet Union. I was born and raised in Moscow and immigrated to the United States in 1990. have lived here ever since.

Apollo Focusing on Employer-Paid Education, GI Bill

Apollo Group (NASDAQ:APOL) recently announced Q3 results that continued to outshine market expectations. Q3 revenues crossed the billion-dollar mark for the first time to come in at $1.05 billion and represented growth of 26% over the year. EPS of $1.26 grew a significant 48% over the $0.85 earned a year ago. The market was expecting

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Apollo Takes People Back To School Amidst Recession

The educational program provider Apollo Group (NASDAQ:APOL), which owns the for-profit University of Phoenix, has been exceeding market expectations on a regular basis even in these depressed conditions, a testament to the company’s good execution capabilities and perhaps the popularity of going back to school as layoffs continue.

Deal Radar 2009: Edutainment Resources, Inc.

Even as companies such as Google, Microsoft and Nokia develop technologies to “write the future of the web” in Kannada, Russian and Nepali, and scholars question whether English will “retain its pre-eminence”, each year millions of people begin to study what is still the official language of organizations as diverse as the European Central Bank,

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Deal Radar 2008: Studywiz Spark

In today’s second installment of the Deal Radar, we’ll also cover an online learning tool for K-12 education, Studywiz Spark. A service of Etech Group, Studywiz Spark was created by Geoff Elwood.

Deal Radar 2008: WiZiQ

I spoke at length this morning at my INSEAD Global Entrepreneurship Forum talk about entrepreneurial opportunities in the educational technology space. Today’s Deal Radar post focuses on WiZiQ, an online tutoring technology startup that offers a learning center and an online collaboration tool for teachers and students for a wide range of subjects and grades. The

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