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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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