Jay Mathews has detected a disturbance in the force.
Someone has dared to criticize his beloved Advanced Placement program.
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According to a new report, Chromebooks, the “computer” of choice for so many schools for almost a decade, are not built to last.
Not the technology itself. Some devices, software, and web apps are being used to make big impacts on student learning. Although it’s probably a pretty small percentage of all that stuff.
Jay Mathews1 really, really, really wants Virginia to have lots of charter schools. REALLY!
As always when he writes on this topic, Mathews doesn’t explain how transferring tax money to charters will improve public schools. His emphasis in these waste-of-newsprint Washington Post columns is always on the politics of the issue, with little to nothing about the educational value.
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The Washington Post reports that the latest project from serial education “entrepreneur” Chris Whittle is on the verge of failure.
In 2018, Whittle pitched investors on the concept of the “world’s first global school”, private institutions with a network of campuses around the world, emphasizing “experiential learning, foreign language skills and ‘a collective intelligence’”.