Theres a reason why theres a grave yard of Google's dead projects.
Its annoying that software is such a high gross margin industry - I would love to see Googles cash get taken away so they cant take these vanity projects.
There's a _huge_ cottage industry of edu apps and programs that are both hugely expensive and not better at teaching, consuming a lot VC and end user $$$. As a first step, this seems not bad at all.
I do agree that it would be better to dial in on a pupil's interest than the grade level (my kid may be 7th grade in English but 9th grade in Chemistry, for instance.)
if the US government had done its job and split google's monopolistic ad business into what should be 4 different companies, then we wouldn't have this problem
Its annoying that software is such a high gross margin industry - I would love to see Googles cash get taken away so they cant take these vanity projects.