Technology isn't the fix for what ails America's schools

Esther Cepeda:

If it weren't so tragic, it might be amusing.

Last week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal, co-authored with Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, pushing "Digital Promise," a new program to use technology to "revolutionize" K-12 education.

It was published the day after Hastings sent an email to Netflix customers informing them that, in addition to having just ticked them off by both limiting their choices and hiking rates, he also planned to split the company into two separate and unrelated entertainment services.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 30, 2011 1:25 AM
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