Higher Learning

Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times

2007-05-04T08:24:00.000-05:00

Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops - New York Times

"the latest example of how technology is often embraced by philanthropists and political leaders as a quick fix, only to leave teachers flummoxed about how best to integrate the new gadgets into curriculums. Last month, the United States Department of Education released a study showing no difference in academic achievement between students who used educational software programs for math and reading and those who did not."

First you teach them to read and write really well. THEN you let them have computers.
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Bill Gates says U.S. education system needs work

2006-11-14T19:56:00.000-05:00

Read all about it: Bill Gates says U.S. education system needs work!

This from the number one public figure to whom those kids who don't want to finish college turn for justification. Would it have hurt him to finish college, just to set a good example?

"Primary and secondary schools are failing to get students ready for college."

No kidding. This from a guy who doesn't send his own kids to public school. What a great example it would if he did. If there is one aspect of the education debate that really irks me it is people talking about how the "American education system" needs to be better supported, while their own resources are directed at supporting and perpetuating some private school. Either we make up our minds that there is one system of education, the tax-payer funded public education system, or we come out and admit that really it is every family for itself, and McDonald's take the hindmost.
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Higher education could be a lot higher than it is

2006-11-14T15:27:00.000-05:00

How do I know higher education could be a lot higher than it is? Because there was a time when it was.