Smarter Education: The Rise of Big Data in the Classroom

You've heard it before, and you'll hear it again: The education system is failingAccording to the Associated Press, about 1,700 schools nationwide can be deemed "dropout factories," which essentially means their senior class has 60% or less of the students who started there as freshmen. And every 26 seconds, a student in America drops out of high school, or in other words, 7,000 a day. Let that sink in

It's important not only that we ask ourselves why these schools have lost 40% of their student population, but to acknowledge that we can do better; we have the tools and motivation to fix this. Read more...

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