Education Startup Panaroma Raises $12 Million in Funding

Panorama Education secured $12 million in new funding to help schools better understand their students. The company seeks to find the best ways to gather and organize feedback from students to their schools.

“‘’There’s all this talk about data and education, but ‘data’ has really been a buzzword and not very meaningful because we’re still looking at test scores, not at how engaged students are,’ says Feuer. ‘There’s a disconnect between the things we care about and the things that we’re actually measuring and judging schools by.’”

Source: Tech Crunch

Facebook's Mission To Connect Internet With Drones

As one of their missions, Facebook wants to connect rural areas with the Internet using drones. The company uses balloons to life the drones up to 90,000 feet, which will fly up to three months and transmit information.

“'We want to actually speed up Internet adoption -- and in order to speed that up we need to work on the infrastructure challenges we’re working on today,' said Jay Parikh, Facebook’s vice president of engineering. 'Our mission in the company is to connect everybody in the world.'"

Source: Bloomberg