It can elicit from children feats of abstraction worthy of a rocket scientist, delighting parents who remain unaware that they are witnessing a damping of creative powers. Evidence that computer-based learning improves test scores has been hard to come by. Even harder for many people, I'm afraid, will be the realization that higher test scores may just as well signal an educational failure as a success. We do not, after all, hope for the birth of a 75-pound baby. It is equally perverse to push for an adult-like intellect in a child.
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