Pearson-Incubated Startup Alleyoop Launches To Gamify Adaptive Learning

TechCrunch

Feb 1, 2012

According to the National Center on Education and the Economy, only 1 in 6 high school freshmen will go on to graduate from college on time, and about 25 percent of Americans drop out before they finish high school. A Pearson-backed startup launching today, called Alleyoop is betting that by combining adaptive learning with some elements of gamification, it can help prepare high schoolers and young people for college — and increase college graduation rates.

Simply put, Alleyoop has created an adaptive learning platform for middle school and high schoolers, the goal being to prepare teens for what lies ahead of them in college. For many kids, their problems center around math, so that was the first subject Alleyoop set out to tackle.

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