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Carnegie Learning Gets a Makeover After Private Equity Investment

Edsurge

Carnegie Learning currently offers online math courseware for middle, high-school and college students, along with accompanying print textbooks as part of its blended-learning programs. We’re trying to take what we do well in cognitive science and adaptive learning, and bring that to the content that New Mountain has.”

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Just who are the people behind today’s educational software?

The Hechinger Report

In this first installment, software engineer Ben Slivka — inspired by science fiction — dreamed of creating truly adaptive learning software. February 2005: Bellevue, Washington. It would be the ultimate in personalized education, enabling children to learn exactly what they needed to learn at exactly the ideal pace.