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The Tortoise Picks Up Speed

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Ray Watkins
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Here’s a short piece (Former Govs. Prod States on Digital Education )that seems to suggest that the tortise in the digital education race– the public educatin system– may be slowly catching up to the hare– the for profit sector. It seems to have a focus on K-12 but there’s no reason it can’t exapnd its reach. Slowly but surely the public sector is going to wake up…

What’s impressisve about the Digital Learning Council is that it iincludes people from both Apple and Microsoft, as well as administative types. Power and money, any way you look at it. Now if they would only realize that they can use this technology to make a college degree cheaply available to working class and poor kids. Then the race really would be on…

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    The C.C.C.C webpage, A Taste for Language: Literacy, Class, and English Studies includes a short podcast interview with me along with links to these reviews:

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