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MasterClass Co-Founder Secures $30M Series B Funding For Online Education Platform Outlier
Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 9:14am | 1095Nearly 600,000 first-year college students take calculus annually in the U.S., and 250,000 fail, according to Woodie Flowers, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. At $2,000 per failed course, that’s nearly $500 million in losses for students each year. How can that failure...
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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Just Invested $24 Million In This African Startup Company
Friday, June 17, 2016 - 2:23pm | 315Andela is a two-year-old company that offers the people of Africa the opportunity to learn how to develop software. According to the company's own website, it selects the top 1 percent of tech talent from the African continent and then shapes them into "world-class technical leaders" before being...