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Larry Berger has been active in the education and technology fields for more than fifteen years. As chairman and co-founder of Wireless Generation, he has led the invention of the patent-pending mCLASS® software system for early reading and math assessment, which has transformed the way educators collect and use assessment data, creating a culture of continuous feedback in classrooms. The mCLASS software streamlines the assessment process and increases the value of data by delivering it immediately in handheld- and Web-based reports for teachers and administrators, with recommendations and tools for linking data to instruction. Prior to launching Wireless Generation, Larry was President of InterDimensions, a Web solutions company based in New York and Boston. He also served as the Educational Technology Specialist at The Children's Aid Society, where he led the development of four "Technology Playgrounds" in Harlem and Staten Island, community computer labs in disadvantaged neighborhoods that have served as models of using technology to empower young people. Larry also developed (with Wireless Generation co-founder Greg Gunn) The Hole in The Web, an online extension of Paul Newman's "Hole In The Wall Gang" Camp for children with cancer and blood diseases. As a White House Fellow, Larry worked on Educational Technology at NASA, where he authored a vision of NASA's 21st century educational technology agenda, and did the conceptual design and early development of NASA BioBLAST, a curriculum module for high school biology. Larry has published numerous articles on education technology and the use of handheld computing to support diagnostic instruction. In addition, he is the co-author of I Will Sing Life, a book about the poetry writing program he developed and taught for children with serious illnesses, and of "Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT," a best-selling SAT review book that he wrote when he was in high school. He serves on the board of directors of the non-profit Peer Health Exchange, which trains college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that otherwise lack health education. Larry holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Aspen Pahara Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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