[Irtalk] Rotten to the Core: How an Apple mega-deal cost Los Angeles classrooms $1 billion - Salon.com

[Hilton Gibson]

But at the bottom of this rush to place technology in every classroom is
the nagging feeling that the goal in buying expensive devices is not to
improve teachers’ abilities, or to lighten their load. It’s not to create
more meaningful learning experiences for students or to lift them out of
poverty or neglect. It’s to facilitate more test-making and profit-taking
for private industry, and quick, too, before there’s nothing left.

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/28/rotten_to_the_core_how_an_apple_mega_deal_cost_los_angeles_classrooms_1_billion/
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