Socratic Learning is committed to educational excellence and equity for all students. Its mission is to promote higher order thinking, achievement and performance in all students through easy access to highly qualified instructors. Socratic Learning uses the latest technologies to close the "time and distance" gap and deliver high quality solutions at a fraction of their historical cost. Socratic Learning is a combination of high-tech and high-human-interaction solutions.
Sidney M. Cole, the Chairman of Socratic Learning is deeply committed to improving education for all children in the US. After spending decades building highly successful companies (including co-founding a successful retail enterprise with over 500 outlets and $ 360 Million in yearly revenues), he co-founded Socratic Learning to help close the achievement gap among US school children. He brings his rich experience in the fields of retail business and helps guide the development of sound online business practices and effective solutions. He is also equally committed to providing a highly challenging environment for gifted and talented students.
Betty A. Rosa, Ed. D.
Born in New York City but raised for the first ten years of her life in Puerto Rico, Dr. Rosa returned to New York City and attended public elementary and junior high schools in the Bronx before graduating from St. Helena's High School.
She received a B. A. in psychology from the City College of New York, holds two Master of Science in Education degrees, one in Administration and Supervision and the other in Bilingual Education from the City University of New York, and received an Ed. M. and Ed. D. in Administration, Planning and Social Policy through the Urban Superintendents Program at Harvard University.
Dr. Rosa worked as a bilingual teacher and reading coordinator in the New York City school system and also served as an assistant principal and principal in special education before becoming principal of I. S. 218, a full-service community school in partnership with the Children's Aid Society.
Chancellor Rudy Crew appointed Dr. Rosa to the position of Superintendent of Community School District 8 in the Bronx. District 8 consisted of approximately 24,000 students and 30 schools encompassing neighborhoods of the South Bronx including Soundview and Hunts Point and the northeast section of the Bronx known as Throgs Neck. Dr. Rosa also served as the Senior Superintendent of the Bronx.
She was elected for a four-year term to the Alumni Council of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and was appointed to a three-year term to the Principal/Site Administrator Advisory Committee of the American Association of School Administrators. Dr. Rosa has also served as a consulting member of the Educational Research Development Institute and currently works as a consultant to a number of companies and school districts.
Mythili Sridhar is a seasoned educator with over fifteen years experience developing high quality curriculum and assessment programs. She served as the lead cognitive specialist of the CoVis. Research Group at the University of Illinois. CoVis was a joint effort between the Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specialists in hands-on learning at the Exploratorium Science Museum, and other collaborators. CoVis has focused on three areas - project-enhanced science learning, collaboration, and scientific visualization - as a means for transforming science education. She was also the primary architect of a JAVA based weather visualizer developed through a grant from NASA (under the HORIZON project) aimed at the promotion of earth and space sciences data through enhancements of and innovations in World Wide Web technology. Between 8-91 and 5-94 she administered the SuperQuest program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. SuperQuest was a national Supercomputing challenge aimed at high school students.
Alcides Espinol is an attorney who is deeply committed to improving the quality of education for children. He has worked with Associated Colleges of Illinois, The Chicago Teachers' Union Quest Center, the Bold Chicago Institute, the Chicago Scholars Foundation, the Golden Apple Foundation, the Latino Technology Association, the Mayor's Office of Workforce Development, and Northeastern University's Teachers Center. In2003, Alcides started working with the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), Chicago Public Schools, Chicago State University, Loyola University, Northern Illinois, UIC, Roosevelt University, and South Suburban College to implement a US Department of Education Teacher Quality Enhancement (TQE) grant. Alcides holds a Bachelors degree from Loyola University and a Juris Doctor degree from John Marshall Law School.
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