👓 ‘Personalized Learning’ and the Power of the Gates Foundation to Shape Education Policy | Hack Education

Read 'Personalized Learning' and the Power of the Gates Foundation to Shape Education Policy by Audrey Watters (Hack Education)

There are two obvious sources of funding and PR for “personalized learning” – the Gates Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The former has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on “personalized learning” products and projects; the latter promises it will spend billions.

There are some out-sized influences in the education space. If only the US Government were better at pushing influence in this area…