During this same period in late 2016, Coleman had been having regular conversations with Jim Shelton, the former deputy secretary of education under President Obama. Shelton had just been hired by Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to oversee education giving for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, or CZI, the philanthropic organization the couple had founded a year earlier as a vehicle to give away, in a strategic fashion, the bulk of their $60 billion fortune. Zuckerberg and Chan are proponents of what they call personalized learning—using adaptive technologies
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