One of education journalist Matt Barnum's lasty pieces of work at Chalkbeat before departing for the Wall Street Journal was a retrospective about Mark Zuckerberg's attempt to bring tech revolution to education. It's a great read, and I'm here to encourage you to go read it even as I underline a couple of Barnum's points.
Schools and tech companies have always been so sketchy! A few years ago I wrote a piece about Summit's PLP and AltSchool. The layers of PR and HR people I had to go through was so ridiculous, and then Summit fought my editor after a few sentences in the piece were critical of their program. It's here if you are interested. https://www.parentmap.com/article/student-data
Schools and tech companies have always been so sketchy! A few years ago I wrote a piece about Summit's PLP and AltSchool. The layers of PR and HR people I had to go through was so ridiculous, and then Summit fought my editor after a few sentences in the piece were critical of their program. It's here if you are interested. https://www.parentmap.com/article/student-data