The program examines how the same computer technologies that have transformed the business world can be applied to education. This work isn't confined to the lab. IBM is also working with schools to demonstrate how these reforms can be implemented. In a recent interview with Business Week's William C. Symonds, Gerstner discussed some of the lessons he has learned. Well, I think that technology could play an enormously important role in school reformation, but it could also be a very weak reed that people lean on, if it's not viewed correctly.
Information technology is a tool.
Everybody wants to find a silver bullet that's going to fix public education. So there are people who think vouchers are going to fix public education. There are people who think merit pay is going to fix public education. And there are people who think information technology is going to fix public education. So there's an agenda for a lot of systemic change.