Mark Zuckerberg tried to revolutionize American educa- tion with technology. It didn’t go as planned. - by Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat

That seemed to be the biggest draw for Zuckerberg, who contrasted the approach to “having every student sit in a classroom and listen to a teacher explain the same material at the same pace in the same way.” He suggested this could lead to transformational improvements in student learning. [...] The goal, he wrote in 2017, was “scaling this approach to every classroom.” Zuckberg was also a part of a $100 million investment in AltSchool, a private network of schools run by a former Google employee who hoped to spread innovations to the public schools. [...] Much of the money has gone to develop and maintain the Summit Learning Program and provide training to educators. [...] “Students who may understand a concept more quickly are able to move forward instead of having to wait for the rest of the class,” wrote Annie Thomas, a Colorado parent who defended the program in an op-ed last year. [...] (A spokesperson for CZI said in an email, “The public discussion about AI in education is evolv- ing rapidly, and we are approaching it thoughtfully and cautiously.”) John Bailey, a fellow at CZI and the American Enterprise Institute, recently wrote an optimistic essay about the potential of AI, with a headline that marked the end of one era and the dawn of a new one: “The Prom- ise of Personalize.