NYC Dept of Ed wants to spend $1BILLION on technology & $3.4 BILLION on construction in 2012

[Hannah Bell]

while laying off personnel and attacking pensions.

$1 billion = 20,000 people making $50K a year.

According to the district, the technology spending is "to comply with state requirements that all elementary- and middle-school students take annual reading and math assessments online by 2014."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/dept_of_ed_crams_in_budget_hike_erKcBFcrQ37FGg4E0y3fzO#ixzz1BeaV6N8X


However, according to Leonie Haimson:

Typically, the city wants to blame this on the state and the feds mandating online assessments. This doesn't fly; nowhere else in the country are they spending these kind of dollars for this purpose. Instead, the real reason is they want to expand online learning and further degrade the opportunity for our children to receive instruction from a real live teacher.

http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2011/01/pep-meeting-last-night.html

[leftstreet]

1. K&R

That's chump change to the wealthy!

:puke:

[greymattermom]

2. podcast

I'm a professor and all of my lectures are podcast. We did an experiment this year and presented one course as podcast only, no live person was present. It was a disaster, and this is a medical school with adult, well disciplined students. The work doesn't get done, students listen to podcasts the night before the test, learn nothing.

[Hannah Bell]

3. and it will be a disaster with primary & secondary students. but it won't

matter, because the purpose is not educate students but to make money for capitalists by skimming rents from the state.