Mark Zuckerberg says technology could be a solution for America's broken school system

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December 15, 2017 11:21 PM

In a letter posted to Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said that technology is the solution to providing students with a more "personalized" education.

In a letter posted to Facebook, Zuckerberg outlined his "lessons on philanthropy" in 2017.
Zuckerberg asserted that technology is part of the solution to improving education in the US. He wants to build tools that empower teachers.
Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have sold more than $900 million worth of Facebook shares this year to fund programs that bolster schools.

In a letter posted to Facebook on Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg reflected on what he and wife Priscilla Chan have learned about philanthropy in 2017. One of his biggest takeaways was that improving education will be among the biggest challenges that the next generation faces.

Zuckerberg thinks he has a fix for a broken school system: more technology.

In the letter, Zuckerberg asserted that the best education is one that is tailored to students' individual needs. He believes personalized learning can scale through technology.

Technology can help deliver this experience, as well as scale it beyond any one classroom, according to Zuckerberg. At AltSchool, teachers share lesson plans across an online network and cherry-pick tasks for students .

One challenge we've seen in education is that there are many brilliant teachers and school leaders who create new kinds of schools based on new models of learning — but those schools usually only serve hundreds of students, while most children still do not have access to them," Zuckerberg wrote.

"Our hope is that technology can help with this scaling challenge," he added.

Chan and Zuckerberg sold more than $900 million worth of Facebook shares in 2017 to fund their foundation, which aims to bolster reform in

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