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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The following year, Negroponte boasted that “within two weeks, [children] were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android.” Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. Socorro Dove. Apple sneers about this.

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