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Based in NYC’s Union Square, Knewton is poised to revolutionize the practice of education with the world’s most powerful adaptive learning engine. Today, our revenues come from our next-gen online test prep classes, but our vision is much wider. We’re rich in eclectic personalities and are ridiculously dedicated. Our intention …
Summer of Prep: Win a Free Course!
Here at Knewton, we’re getting into the swing of summer by spending plenty of time outdoors–and coming up with a great warm-weather giveaway for Knewton fans! Four lucky students will receive a free course–GMAT, LSAT, or SAT, depending on which test looms for fall! Visit our Facebook page to enter, …
Our (admittedly mild) April Fools' joke on our students
Our students in China couldn’t believe their good fortune. Good one, Effie and Dave!
Greece's Pieces
Jose Ferreira is the Founder and CEO of Knewton When the EU formed in 1998, I was the crazy guy in the corner of the pub ranting to all my friends that it would one day come a cropper. Since there seems to be little appetite in Europe to fully …
SAT Vocab Words: Learn "peripatetic"–but don't use it
Even a 5-year-old knows when you’re trying too hard. On Bring Your Child To Work Day we had some spare acting talent in the office. We gave them 5 minutes to learn the script, and shot the whole thing in 15 minutes right outside of the office. Not too bad …
Against the Yelp-ification of Education
Josh Anish is the Senior Editor @Knewton. The word local seems to be on the tip of every Internet-savvy person’s tongue lately. Google Local. FourSquare. Yelp (and its army of intimidators). The internet has infiltrated our neighborhoods. It can tell us to turn right instead of left, zig instead of …
Why Can't Disruptive Technologies be Better than Incumbents?
Michael Horn, coauthor of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, blogged about a friendly debate he had with Jose at a conference. The question at hand: Can an innovation come along that is both demonstrably lower in cost and higher in quality? We think …
Knewton Announces Completion of $12.5 Million Financing Led by FirstMark Capital
Funding to accelerate and to launch revolutionary adaptive learning platform New York, NY (April 19, 2010) — Knewton, a leading educational technology company announced today that it has completed a $12.5 million round of funding led by FirstMark Capital, a New York City-based venture capital firm with a strong foothold in …
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What the iPad Does– and Doesn't– Mean for Education
Alex Sarlin is Lead Verbal Developer for Graduate Programs at Knewton, specializing in GMAT prep. The iPad is certainly one of the more polarizing issues in the technology world. Many, like the folks at Wired Magazine, are hailing the iPad as the second coming, a revelatory device that will usher …
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