Computers Idle in Public Schools
James Guthrie,
USA Today,
Mar 18, 2003
This author reports having seen thousands of computers unused in schools and - like Larry Cuban, who has already written of the same phenomenon - suggests that schools change their approach to technology. Once place he might have looked (but didn't) is Maine. That said, his suggestions make sense: make it easier for students to take advanced placement courses online, encourage innovation, use E-Rate funding as venture capital for e-learning research, and subsidize the use of educational software in the home.
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