Karan Goel

Advance Illinois is a nonprofit founded to be an independent, objective voice promoting a public education system in Illinois that serves the best interests of our children by preparing all students to be ready for work, college, and democratic citizenship. Visit www.advanceillinois.org

Advance Illinois is a nonprofit founded to be an independent, objective voice promoting a public education system in Illinois that serves the best interests of our children by preparing all students to be ready for work, college, and democratic citizenship. Visit www.advanceillinois.org

GetSet provides higher education students, faculty, and admins a comprehensive platform of influence - where social productivity interventions and community interactions develop the mindset students need to succeed in college and beyond. GetSet is where where college students share their journeys, struggles, successes, lend support and learn to lean on others through the powerful stories they journal. When students overcome challenges, connect with peers just like them, and receive positive influence, they build a "stay in school"​ attitude resulting in retention statistics improving from 2-6% on average.

PrepMe is a leader in personalizing learning. Educators and publishers use the Coursification™ Platform to tailor learning materials to each students individual needs. The platform is inherently adaptive and focuses on driving user engagement to attain optimal achievement outcomes. Others talk about adaptive learning, we do it. Our proprietary college readiness business provides high-quality, personalized online ACT, PSAT, and SAT preparation. PrepMes programs diagnose each students individual strengths and weaknesses to in order to tailor curricula and practice based on the areas in which each student needs to improve. Furthermore, PrepMes tutors are paid based on how much their students scores increase. PrepMe pioneered the use of adaptive learning in test preparation and now works with hundreds of schools and tens of thousands of students each year. PrepMes adaptive learning platform was acquired by Ascend Learning on July 18, 2011. The company continues to operate its industry leading college preparation services under license from Ascend.