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Article: Mind Games: Santa Ana Nonprofit Offers Software for Math Learning
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- Orange County Business Journal
- Article date:
- September 8, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright CBJ, L. P. Sep 8-Sep 14, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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As founder and former chief executive of Costa Mesa's FileNet Corp., Ted Smith sold software to big banks, insurance companies and the rest of Corporate America.
Smith left FileNet, now part of IBM Corp., in the 1990s. But he's still pushing software.
He's chief executive of Santa Ana's Mind Research Institute, a nonprofit that seeks to get schools to use its learning software to boost math and science education.
The challenge is as hard as anything Smith faced at FileNet, he said. Educators know they need help, but change doesn't always come easy, he said.
Then there's the scope of the problem.
The U.S. is 24th in math skills out of 30 industrialized nations, according to Smith.
"That's ...