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Farhat Ahmad is an experienced educator currently serving as a Special Education Teacher with Cobb County School District since June 2023. Previously, Farhat directed an alternative education program at Marietta City Schools, focusing on social-emotional and academic learning for students referred for disciplinary reasons. Farhat has also contributed as a columnist for EdSurge since September 2017, covering topics like personalized learning and standardized testing. Additional roles include work as a Freelance Writer for assessment development at the University of Georgia's College of Education and various teaching positions within Fulton County Schools, emphasizing curriculum development and special education. Farhat holds a Master of Education in Secondary Education from Georgia Southern University and a Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing and Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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EdSurge is the leading site for educators, entrepreneurs and investors involved in education technology. They help educators discover the best products for their students; they inspire developers to build what educators and learners need; they help investors understand the emerging market. EdSurge is regularly cited as the most influentialbrand for education technology news and information. EdSurge hosts the most comprehensive database of edtech products, companies, and topics online in addition to more traditional daily reporting of news in the education technology ecosystem. It also runs a vibrant jobs board for entrepreneurs and educators. Alongside its online presence, EdSurge hosts the San Francisco education technology meetup, a robust nationwide series of Summits, a high-profile awards program called the Digital Innovation in Learning Awards. It is also hosts a service called Edtech Concierge, designed to support education leaders in choosing tools. The organization itself is operated as a technology-journalism hybrid, employing equal parts technologists, educators and journalists. The company's goal is to promote the smart adoption of education technology through impartial reporting on products and news, research, online community building and services, events and tools. EdSurge is a venture-backed company that has also received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.