John Carroll joined XanEdu, now a part of the Scholarus Learning group of companies, as the GM, K12 Curriculum Services. In his role, John is responsible for the strategic vision and implementation of XanEdu’s K-12 product roadmap and its content/curriculum vision. John has over 15 years of edtech experience in the K-12 school market including product management, marketing, and strategy roles at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw Hill Education, Pearson School, and Scholastic. John holds a BA in economics from Tufts University and an MBA from Northeastern University.
Natalie Wexler is an education writer and the author of The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System—and How to Fix It (Avery, 2019). She is also the co-author, with Judith C. Hochman, of The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades (Jossey-Bass, 2017), and the host of Reading Comprehension Revisited, a six-episode series for the Knowledge Matters Podcast. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, and other publications. She a senior contributor to Forbes.com, and she has a free Substack newsletter called Minding the Gap. Natalie lives in Washington, D.C.