Larry Berger
CEO and Co-Founder

Larry Berger is CEO and co-founder of Wireless Generation, an education company that has pioneered the adaptation of emerging technologies to improve PreK-12 teaching and learning. Mr. Berger led the invention of Wireless Generation's mCLASS® system, which enables educators to administer early reading and math formative assessments using handheld computers and then immediately receive results, analysis, and support for differentiated instruction. Today, Wireless Generation serves more than 3 million children and hosts one of the largest databases of longitudinal student data in the country.

Under Mr. Berger's leadership, Wireless Generation is helping educators teach smarter through the sensitive and innovative application of technology in the classroom. Burst®:Reading is a new approach to curriculum publishing that enables every teacher to differentiate instruction successfully. Burst:Reading uses technology to analyze students' formative assessment data, group them based upon shared learning needs, and produce lessons designed for each group and delivered by the teacher. The cycle of assessment, analysis, grouping, and lesson creation repeats every ten days, so that teachers always have the precise lessons that match their students' needs. In addition, Wireless Generation has developed large-scale data systems that capture multiple points of information relevant to a student's academic growth, and knowledge management systems that connect teachers to solutions that have worked in other, similar classrooms. Wireless Generation also launched FreeReading.net, the first open source curriculum to be accepted through an official state adoption.

Prior to launching Wireless Generation, Mr. Berger was President of InterDimensions, a Web solutions company. He also served as the Educational Technology Specialist at The Children's Aid Society, where he led the development of "Technology Playgrounds," community computer labs in disadvantaged neighborhoods that are models of using technology to empower young people. Mr. Berger was a Rhodes Scholar, and a White House Fellow working on educational technology at NASA.

Mr. Berger was a 2007 inaugural Fellow for the Entrepreneurial Leaders for Public Education Program, created by The Aspen Institute and the New Schools Venture Fund. He serves on the Carnegie-Institute for Advanced Study Joint Commission on Mathematics and Science Education, and on the Board of Trustees for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is a member of the Board of Overseers for the Annenberg Institute on School Reform at Brown University. He serves on the Board of Peer Health Exchange.