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Here Are the 10 Michelson Runway Startups Vying For Future Funders

Edsurge

Founded in 2009, the company gathers and shares data from student transcripts and uses predictive modeling to “correlate this transcript data to future performance,” the company describes. OSMOSIS : If Khan Academy were a medical school, it might look like Osmosis. Gooroo is aiming to close a $1 million round by June 30, 2018.

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5 Goals for the School Year

The Electric Educator

This marks my third year of this process: 2009-2010 Goals. I even beat out the Khan Academy! Build a Mobile App This is the toughest goal on my to-do list. I do not have the required skills to build an mobile app however I am fortunate to have a brother in law who is full time programmer with mobile app experience.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) Although YouTube was founded in 2005, it has seen an explosion in growth this decade, in part from the ubiquity of mobile devices: anytime, anywhere television-watching. And here it is again, still flopping in this one.

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