NYC spending half a billion on internet ed while firing teachers

[Hannah Bell]

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Here's Why the City Is Spending $542 Million On Technology For Schools

City education officials are not shy about their goal to more fully integrate computers into everyday instruction. Instead of a lonely desktop or two at the back of a room, officials picture entire classrooms of students going online simultaneously, taking Internet-based classes or assessments to measure both their and their teachers’ performance.

This school year alone, the city has issued $50 million in contracts to build an online course-management system, called iLearn NYC, as well as to provide training and to pay companies like Rosetta Stone and Pearson Education to provide content.


And of course Bloomberg gets to hand out hundreds of millions to his tech and business cronies in the bargain too.

http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/