| DON'T MISS : Diane Ravitch Says: IN my book, "Reign of Error," I wrote about Jeb Bush's plan called "Digital Learning Now," which made promises about how technology would bring about a wonderful new world of learning and equity and why every district should open their doors to online schools and deregulate them. They need not even have a physical office in the state. Then I went in search of the research on which the report relied. Some was drawn from higher education, some from industry, some from the military. There was no research to support the claims of the Jeb Bush machine. The report was sponsored by the usual philanthropies AND tech companies, who would win big contracts if the recommendations were enacted. Now Newt Gingrich has written an article lambasting our 19th century schools and recommending the brave new world in which technology replaces teachers. |
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