Knewton

Awards

2016: Education

2014: Big Data, Education

2012: Top 50, Education

Fast Company

Knewton to Bring “Smart Learning” To Classrooms Nationwide

A partnership with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will bring adaptive learning technology to nearly every school district in the country.

Fast Company

Digital Learning Tool Personalizes Lessons For Incarcerated Youth

In a place where academic skills vary greatly, adaptive learning technology can help personalize courses. An initiative led by the U.S. Department of Education is building the digital content. But many youth incarceration centers still need computers.

Fast Company

Watch A Great Short Film On The Future Of Technology And Education

We’re still teaching our kids using a 20th-century paradigm, but many visionaries–like the ones in this video–have plans to take our advances in computing and technology and use them to explode the idea of what education can be.

Fast Company

What Will The Ed Tech Revolution Look Like?

Predictions for how the next 15 years are going to change how children learn, at school and at home.

Fast Company

Personalization And Analytics: The Future Of Education?

Education startup Knewton, which learns from students and makes personalized lessons for them, has teamed up with Pearson, one of the country’s major curriculum designers. Together, they’re trying to create a new system where we can measure that students are learning what–and how–is best for them.

Fast Company

EdSurge: Word Jousts, Groupons For Higher Ed, And The Flipped Classroom

EdSurge–a weekly handbook for the “edsurgents” of the digital education revolution–is sharing notable news with Fast Company every week.

Fast Company

Knewton’s “Adaptive Learning” Technology Spreads To Tens Of Thousands Of Students At ASU, Penn State, SUNY, More

At the Venture Capital in Education Summit yesterday, Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton, announced the first big partnerships that will have tens of thousands of students trying the adaptive learning platform he’s been building for the past five years.

Fast Company

5 Startups to Watch

At the first-ever Venture Capital in Education Summit, at the end of May, Peter Campbell of private equity firm Generation Partners told the crowd, “A theme you hear from the President is that in the next 12 years, we have to retake our primacy as the most educated nation on earth. As an investor, that’s the kind of trend you want to align yourself with.” Dozens of investors in attendance seemed to agree. Here are five for-profit education startups that are attracting attention.

Fast Company

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education

Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks — American higher education is changing.

Ideas

This Database Tells You Which Bad Chemicals Are Hiding In Your Tap Water

Ideas

Sam Adams Tries To Raise Up Craft Brewing By Supporting The Competition

Ideas

Rick Perry Is Fighting Historical Forces In The Energy Market–He’s Going To Lose

Entertainment

Inside The Dumbest First Amendment Battle Of 2017

Entertainment

Julia Michaels Is Exactly What Pop Music Needs Right Now

Entertainment

“Stranger Things 2” and “Ready Player One” Trailers Are Peak ’80s Nostalgia

Co.Design

Spaces

Donald Trump’s Drawing Is Even Worse Than You Think

Spaces

This Skatepark Is A Sculpture You Can Ride

Cities

Knewton

Stories about Knewton

Knewton to Bring “Smart Learning” To Classrooms Nationwide

A partnership with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will bring adaptive learning technology to nearly every school district in the country.

Digital Learning Tool Personalizes Lessons For Incarcerated Youth

In a place where academic skills vary greatly, adaptive learning technology can help personalize courses. An initiative led by the U.S. Department of Education is building the digital content. But many youth incarceration centers still need computers.

Watch A Great Short Film On The Future Of Technology And Education

We’re still teaching our kids using a 20th-century paradigm, but many visionaries–like the ones in this video–have plans to take our advances in computing and technology and use them to explode the idea of what education can be.

What Will The Ed Tech Revolution Look Like?

Predictions for how the next 15 years are going to change how children learn, at school and at home.

Personalization And Analytics: The Future Of Education?

EdSurge: Word Jousts, Groupons For Higher Ed, And The Flipped Classroom

EdSurge–a weekly handbook for the “edsurgents” of the digital education revolution–is sharing notable news with Fast Company every week.

Knewton’s “Adaptive Learning” Technology Spreads To Tens Of Thousands Of Students At ASU, Penn State, SUNY, More

At the Venture Capital in Education Summit yesterday, Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton, announced the first big partnerships that will have tens of thousands of students trying the adaptive learning platform he’s been building for the past five years.

5 Startups to Watch

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education

Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks — American higher education is changing.

Ideas

This Database Tells You Which Bad Chemicals Are Hiding In Your Tap Water

Sam Adams Tries To Raise Up Craft Brewing By Supporting The Competition

Rick Perry Is Fighting Historical Forces In The Energy Market–He’s Going To Lose

Entertainment

Inside The Dumbest First Amendment Battle Of 2017

Julia Michaels Is Exactly What Pop Music Needs Right Now

“Stranger Things 2” and “Ready Player One” Trailers Are Peak ’80s Nostalgia

Co.Design

Donald Trump’s Drawing Is Even Worse Than You Think

This Skatepark Is A Sculpture You Can Ride

This Crowdsourced Project Is Mapping Mysterious Photos Of Lost New York

Fast Company

Three Types Of Employee Recognition That Backfire (And One That Doesn’t)

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