The Misunderstanding About Education That Cost Mark Zuckerberg $100 Million
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Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal. This is hard to understand.
The Misunderstanding About Education That Cost Mark Zuckerberg $100 Million Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal. This is hard to understand. Dan Meyer Oct 11, 2023 79 40 10 Share Last week, Matt Barnum reported in Chalkbeat that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is laying off dozens of staff members and pivoting away from the personalized learning platform they have funded since 2015 with somewhere near $100M. CZI’s shift in approach marks something of a coda to an era when various advocates and funders believed that computer-based “personalized learni
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