Fall 2004
The most recent edition of Education Next is out, with two great articles by Lowell Monke and Frederick Hess throwing cold water on some of the more grandiose claims about technology as a learning tool. Hess notes that for all the money spent on technology in America's schools, computers, PDAs, and other advances have not fundamentally reshaped teaching or learning, nor have they generally even been connected to any serious vision of school reform. "Most often," Hess writes, "PCs serve as little more than high-priced typewriters, sitting in the back of classrooms unused for most of the school day." Also check out Christopher Berry on small schools and Maureen Hallinan on the (happy) demise of the detracking movement. Check it out here.