One teacher could manage a whole district of students if they were all connected electronically. But the push to net-connect every school is an educational disaster in the making. Our schools are in crisis. Statistics prove what I see every day as a parent and a college educator. My wife and I have a constant struggle to get our young boys to master the basic skills they need and our schools hate to teach.
Children pay the price for our educational cowardice.
I've never met one parent or teacher or student or principal or even computer salesman who claimed that insufficient data is the root of the problem. Pardon me, Mr. President, but this is demented. Most American children don't know what a symphony is. If we suddenly figured out how to teach each child one movement of one symphony, that would be a miracle. And our skill-free children are overwhelmed by information even without the Internet.