During his time as governor of Colorado and in his work after, Paul's dad Roy Romer focused on education policy. Roy chaired the National Education Goals Panel, may have been a candidate for Al Gore's secretary of education had Gore been elected, and sought out the position of superintendent of schools in L.A. Deemed "the Donald Rumsfeld of education," Roy Romer was more interested in doing something than being someone. Weary of publisher's "expensive and uninspiring" texts which were only useful with master artisan teachers, Roy Romer contracted a company to create achievement-based math tests and set about administering the tests every ten weeks. His system was intended to enable teachers to react quickly to students who weren't learning.
Himself somewhat weary of publisher's and their antics, Paul Romer decided to begin his own publishing company to market his online learning creations. So, while his father crusaded for the L.A. school system, Paul began Aplia with a $11.2 million commitment from Swedish venture capitalists.
I debated whether the comment about Aplia's logo looking like a fuse-lit bomb was clever enough to mention, and decided it wasn't. But there I guess I mentioned it anyway.
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