Kiddom is a digital platform that helps teachers plan and track students' progress on an individual basis, along with giving students a way to see all their assignments and deadlines in one place. More importantly, Kiddom purports to determine students' optimal learning style and pace of instruction, in order to best-design lesson plans. And it's already in 70% of U.S. school districts.

Some research has found this personalized model to help kids excel in measures of reading and math since it uses data to hold kids and teachers accountable. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have both celebrated the approach for boosting success rates.

Kiddom CEO and Founder Ahsan Rizvi started the company in 2015 as a way to eliminate as much guesswork as possible from the teaching (and learning) process. Within the first couple years, Kiddom saw 30% growth across classrooms month-over-month.

Read the full article about education innovation by Chris Weller at Business Insider.