A. People are putting computers into school buildings that are literally falling apart. I have seen banks of computers that couldn't be hooked up because the walls are so old that they are unable to run the wires through them. So there they sat, at huge expense. This is unbelievably shortsighted. John Dewey wrote a very influential book on education, but he didn't take out double page ads in Education Week - every single week.
Nobody can afford to do that.
Not even textbook publishers. Nobody at any previous time has devoted an entire advertising budget of this size to selling the public on one idea of a magic bullet for education. I say that the emperor has no clothes, or at least he is dressed in a skimpy bikini. Few people even question that computers might not be good for kids. Americans simply believe that high tech is better.