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Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Texts are published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, more than 3.3 million teachers and 40 million students have registered with Newsela for content that’s accessible to everyone, aligned to standards, and attached to activities and reporting that provide visibility into what students are learning and how teachers are leveraging the content in instruction. With more than 15,000 texts and 10 new texts published daily across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any topic they choose. read more

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TOTAL RATINGS: 3099

CEO: Pep Carrera

Pep Carrera Newsela CEO Rating

Newsela's CEO, Pep Carrera, has 110 employee ratings and a score of 85/100, placing them in the Top 5% of similar size companies on Comparably with 201-500 Employees. When breaking the CEO score down by factors such as department, gender, and ethnicity, we see that males at Newsela rate Pep Carrera higher than females, giving the CEO a score of 87/100.

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Where This Score Ranks Newsela's CEO Rating

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Newsela CEO Pep Carrera Bio

Pep Carrera is an accomplished leader in the K-12, higher education, and technology sectors with a proven track record of driving impact and growth at scale, digitizing the textbook market, and building on the success of founder-led companies. He previously served as the CEO of Nearpod where he tripled the company’s annual recurring revenue and increased active teachers to 1.2 million per year. Prior to Nearpod he led VitalSource’s push to transform much of the higher education textbook market to its digital platform. He also served as the President of ProQuest books and Chief Technology Officer of global marketing technology agency, RAPP. Pep serves on the board of Follett Higher Education and holds degrees from Florida International University and Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Pep’s favorite subject in school: Social Studies.

Who Ranks Newsela's CEO Rating the Highest?

Department - Sales 89/100

Department - Business Development 87/100

Experience - 1 to 3 Years 87/100

Who Ranks Newsela's CEO Rating the Lowest?

Ethnicity - Other 73/100

Department - Customer Success 76/100

Department - Product 81/100

Newsela CEO Pep Carrera At a Glance

The CEO score provides an understanding of how employees feel about the CEO’s leadership style and effectiveness at Newsela.

Based on 110 ratings, Pep Carrera ranks right above Rosetta Stone's CEO, John Hass.

Newsela's CEO is highly regarded by the Sales department, the Business Development department, and employees with 1 to 3 Years experience. However, the Customer Success department and the Product department have a less favorable view of the CEO and believe there is room for improvement. Overall, the CEO score has remained stable over the last 90 days.