By Ki Mae Heussner
Over the past few years, education technology startup Knewton has helped mostly college students improve their skills across a range of subjects with its digital learning program that adapts in real-time to students’ performance and activity on the system. Now, the Department of Education is looking to Knewton to help replicate its success among the country’s at-risk youth. On Monday, at the Summit on Education in Correctional Facilities, convened by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, education leaders are set to announce that New York-based Knewton and publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will partner for a program to bring personalized math, language arts and other instruction to 3.5 million youth in the juvenile justice system. “The goal is to help transition them to traditional schools and prepare them for the workforce,” said David Liu, Knewton’s COO.
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