Why Zuckerberg is funding the evolution beyond cookie-cutter education | TechCrunch (2016)

"The best teachers see how each student requires a unique inspiration and learning style. Yet with classroom sizes ballooning and teachers underpaid, there’s no way for students to get the dedicated attention they need. Luckily, technology could offer the adaptive education guidance pupils need to succeed.

That’s why in December Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced the $45 billion Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with a major focus on education. Today, the couple hired former U.S. deputy secretary of the Department of Education James H. Shelton III to lead the CZI’s education wing and its two pillars: underserved communities and personalized learning.

"The best teachers see how each student requires a unique inspiration and learning style. Yet with classroom sizes ballooning and teachers underpaid, there’s no way for students to get the dedicated attention they need. Luckily, technology could offer the adaptive education guidance pupils need to succeed.

That’s why in December Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced the $45 billion Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with a major focus on education. Today, the couple hired former U.S. deputy secretary of the Department of Education James H. Shelton III to lead the CZI’s education wing and its two pillars: underserved communities and personalized learning.