Comcast Begins Program To Offer Inexpensive Internet Access & Computers To Low-Income Families
Comcast has begun a nation-wide program to offer monthly $9.95 Internet access to the students who qualify for free school lunches. In addition, they will sell the family a computer for less than $200. They say the monthly fee comes “with a guarantee of no activation fees, equipment rental fees or price increases. I’m always wary when I hear about a deal that sounds too good to be true, and I’m also wary of the educational value of some well-intentioned home tech programs that have started on
Today’s Round-Up Of Good School Reform Posts, Videos & Articles
Here’s the latest batch of good school reform-related posts and articles:
How to Mold Public Opinion Against Public Schools is by Walt Gardner at Ed Week. I’m mainly including it here because of a paragraph he writes about the PISA Test:
The results of the Program for International Student Assessment showed that our students actually placed No. 1 when they were compared with students at schools abroad having similar poverty rates. To wit: schools in the U.S. with less than a 10 percent poverty rate posted a score of 551. Finland, which is widely