Daniel Mollenkamp
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Daniel Mollenkamp’s Biography
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Azbee Awards Of Excellence
2023 - Enterprise Reporting - Regional Gold Award (Pacific)
"Many edtech companies, policymakers, teachers and parents are eager to rectify the inequities pervasive in the U.S. education system—especially coming out of the pandemic, which widened academic disparities among students of different races and income levels. But research is stirring up new awareness that by the time children enroll in kindergarten, and, even earlier, preschool, the trajectory of their lives has already been influenced by the resources and health interventions their families were able—or unable—to access. EdSurge’s Daniel Mollenkamp was one of the first reporters to cover how education technology companies—which typically produce products and host services for students in K-12 schools and colleges—are, as he wrote, 'expanding their reach into children’s earliest moments of life.'"
Azbee Awards Of Excellence
2024 - Web Feature Article - National and Regional Silver Award (Mid-Atlantic)
As “math wars” raged in California and other places about attempts to increase equity by cutting calculus from the curriculum in favor of statistics or computer science, or by barring students from taking Algebra I before high school, this story explored a quieter revolution. Its aim was not to abandon calculus altogether, but to change the way it’s taught, so that more students find it more approachable and relevant, and are therefore more likely to succeed while studying it.