{"id":4347,"date":"2013-01-06T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/hello-world\/"},"modified":"2013-01-06T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T18:00:57","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/hello-world","title":{"rendered":"Hello, World!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago, if you had visited <a href=\"http:\/\/striveprep.org\">STRIVE Prep<\/a>, you would have found me in my first-floor office, seething. My eyes were glued to my computer screen, and 1-800 number support <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elevator_music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">muzak<\/a> was ringing in my ears. I was on hold, waiting to learn why one of my student\u2019s records was not updated correctly in our online assessment software. Seemingly small errors like this one frustrated my teachers &#8211; an out-of-date record meant a student couldn&#8217;t log in, couldn&#8217;t be assessed, and couldn&#8217;t learn that day. So I spent hours listening to muzak and talking to support reps, trying to keep records and rosters updated, so teachers wouldn&#8217;t lose trust in technology. \u201cWhy,&#8221; our principals frequently asked, \u201cdo we continue to pay for online learning and assessment programs if the data is so out of date our students and teachers can&#8217;t use them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the year that has passed, I started Clever because software has to <em>just work<\/em> in order to get used in schools. My experience at STRIVE Prep taught me that online learning tools that are not integrated with school data systems <em>don\u2019t work<\/em>. Since Clever launched in summer 2012, we&#8217;ve received an incredible outpouring of support from online learning providers, schools, industry veterans, and innovative teachers. These partners of ours share our passion for making great educational software <em>just work,<\/em> and together we are redefining what is possible in education. We&#8217;ll use <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.getclever.com\">this blog<\/a> to share our partners&#8217; stories. We\u2019ll also keep you posted on what\u2019s happening behind the scenes at the most exciting startups in education, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago, if you had visited STRIVE Prep, you would have found me in my first-floor office, seething. My eyes were glued to my computer screen, and 1-800 number support muzak was ringing in my ears. I was on hold, waiting to learn why one of my student\u2019s records was not updated correctly in our online assessment software. Seemingly small errors like this one frustrated my teachers &#8211; an out-of-date record meant a student couldn&#8217;t log in, couldn&#8217;t be assessed, and couldn&#8217;t learn that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":4348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clever.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}