Welcome to EdReformer, a community of advocates, innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors seeking to improve student learning worldwide. EdRefomer serves as a catalyst for innovation in the education sector by encouraging entrepreneurship and promoting public and private investment in new learning tools, schools, and platforms.

EdReformer is a project of Vander Ark / Ratcliff, a strategic marketing, communications and public affairs company that is devoted to education innovation, and was incubated by New Schools Venture Fund with support from a donor committed to innovations in learning.

Founding blogger Tom Vander Ark is a partner in VA/R and Revolution Learning, a multi-stage private equity investor concentrating on improving formal and informal learning globally. Tom is a former public school superintendent, grant-maker, and business executive.

Douglas Crets is Executive Editor of EdReformer. Prior to joining VA / R, Douglas lived for six years in Hong Kong, where he worked as a journalist and a media consultant specializing in analysis of new media and traditional media development in 17 countries across Asia. He has had experience as a wire services reporter for Dow Jones in New Delhi, India and as a television reporter for a local English channel in Hong Kong. He has done a few political stories and ecological stories about Burma, his favorite country to visit. Douglas has also been a blogger at CNET Asia.

Douglas’ most recent career was in creating financial forums for executives in alternative investments, money markets, private debt, telecoms and the for-profit education industry. He is the former Director of the Education Industry Investment Forum, held annually in Phoenix, Arizona. Douglas advocates for social change, entrepreneurial talent, innovation in education and the use of technology to bring human endeavor to scale. He lives in New York, New York and enjoys yoga, scuba diving, international travel, writing and visiting as many of the restaurants in Manhattan that he can afford. He holds degrees from Wake Forest University (BA), Syracuse University (MFA) and The University of Hong Kong (MJ).

You can reach Tom and Douglas at the following:

Douglas Crets
direct: 917.499.1993
email: doug@varpartners.net
Skype: doug_crets

Tom Vander Ark
direct : 206.909.8251
email : tom@varpartners.net
skype : tomvanderark