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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

Students spend three months abroad doing a service-learning project, three months residentially in San Francisco, and three months doing an internship. And then when they’re done with our program, they can take those skills and the self-awareness that they learn to go to college and make the most of that time.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

They recorded school resource officers. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” Students recorded fellow students.

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