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Karl Rectanus
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Revolutionizing Literacy through Outcomes with Karl Rectanus CEO of Really Great Reading

What if schools stopped paying for books, licenses, and PD days, and started paying for kids learning to read?

Back on the show for round two, ⁠Really Great Reading⁠ CEO Karl Rectanus joins Mike Palmer live from ⁠EdTech Week 2026⁠ at Teachers College’s ⁠Digital Futures Institute⁠. Karl started out as a teacher and charter school CFO, taught overseas, and then founded LearnPlatform, whose rapid-cycle evaluation work helped shape the four levels of evidence in the Every Student Succeeds Act. After Instructure acquired LearnPlatform, Karl led K-12 and platform strategy there before taking the helm at Really Great Reading, a 20-year-old OG of the science of reading.

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Dan Goldstein
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The Future of AI-Powered Assessment at Learnosity with Dan Goldstein

What if the most important edtech company in your classroom is one you’ve never heard of?

Live from ⁠EdTech Week 2026⁠ at Teachers College’s ⁠Digital Futures Institute⁠, Mike Palmer sits down with Dan Goldstein of ⁠Learnosity⁠, the assessment engine that powers some of the biggest names in education from behind the scenes. Dan’s path ran through College Board’s SpringBoard curriculum, where he led implementation across Texas and New Mexico, and district-facing sales at Cengage, before he joined Learnosity in 2019, just as the “beforetimes” ended.

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