"I live in Silicon Valley, which operates on the assumption that there’s no problem that technology can’t solve. It suffuses our culture here, and we pay the price for this technocratic utopianism; the administrators have upended the entire sixth grade math program. abolished the traditional math program -- where students sit in a classroom and learn from a trained and qualified math teacher. Instead the administrators make students learn math mainly from a computer program called T each to One. Run by a venture called New Classrooms, it promises to let each student engage in “personalized learning,” where a computer program gauges each student’s knowledge of math, then continually customizes the math education that students receive. It all sounds like a great concept. Bill Gates has supposedly called it the “Future of Math Education.” Maybe, but if doesn't help kids LEARN!
At dianeravitch.net
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