Gates Foundation-backed InBloom Inc. picks Atlanta

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InBloom Inc., the technology-based nonprofit backed by the Billand Melinda Gates Foundation, has chosen Atlanta as its headquarters, “puttingthe city on the national stage in the effort to transform American education,”according to an Atlanta Business Chronicle online report today.

InBloom Inc. will provide technology services as schools race tomeet new academic requirements, according to the ABC report.
“The nonprofit focuses on the challenge American educators faceas they are inundated with data and technology in multiple formats, creating adisjointed system,” reports the ABC. “The situation makes it hard for teachersto tailor instruction and curriculum to meet the needs of individual students.”
 “Education technology anddata need to work better together to fulfill their potential for students andteachers,” Iwan Streichenberger, CEO of inBloom Inc, said in a news release.“Until now, tackling this problem has often been too expensive for states anddistricts, but inBloom is easing that burden and ushering in a new era ofpersonalized learning.”
Twenty-one education technology companies have already announcedplans to develop applications that will work with inBloom.