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Can Entrepreneurs Balance Educational and Financial Returns?

Edsurge

In his 2010 book, Building Social Business, micro finance pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus defines “social entrepreneurship” as an “initiative of social consequences created by an entrepreneur with a social vision.” The company also donates a significant amount of earnings to schools and charitable causes.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. But in 2010, the company, co-founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen, announced that it would no longer offer a free version. Deliverology".

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