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AllHere Gets a ‘Nudge’ to Scale Low-Cost, Research-Backed Way to Improve Student Outcomes

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He has partnered with other edtech companies on research projects, and he says he first met Smith about two years ago. A Nudge to Remember In an age when mobile apps and devices send alerts for just about anything, the idea of sending updates via SMS hardly seems radical. In other words, he gets to keep being a researcher. “We

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

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The year was 2010, and Michael Gibson found himself on the first day of a research job at a hedge fund run by the controversial billionaire Peter Thiel. They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. Gibson had little experience in finance. in it at Oxford University.

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