Kansas City teachers are complaining that they were not asked before plans for giving laptops to all students were okayed. The jury is still out about whether the program is working in Joplin, where all high school students are given laptops but that has not stopped Joplin R-8 officials from expanding the program to middle schools where all eighth graders will receive IPads at the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year.
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Breaking news: The jury in Joplin has come back with a verdict. The laptops are definitely not working. Data in a few weeks will show just how much they're not working. The only question now is what will be done about it.
" The jury is still out about whether the program is working in Joplin,"
You have to be more specific in the question.
Is the program working to improve the fame and fortune of certain administrators? They are now "experts" and apparently travel all over to talk about what they've done. I think you'd have to admit this program is a great success and resume enhancer for these folks.
For the schoolchildren and parents of Joplin R-8? Not so much a success I expect.
I predict that within a year at least one of the upper administrators at Joplin R-8 will leave to move into a technology sales position at an educational profiteer.
Just a school autonomy issue...
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