The 74 Million – Ambika Kapur and LaVerne Srinivasan
“As of the first weeks of the school year, parents and teachers at 35,000 schools nationwide have been communicating via text messages translated into 108 languages. The platform they use, created by the education technology nonprofit TalkingPoints, has seen a fifteen-fold increase in activity over last year, a spike driven by the COVID-19 pandemic as families and faculty wrestle with keeping students on track in a time of social distancing, remote teaching and other stresses.” (more)