Perhaps needless to note yet again, but resources for public education in the US are NOT distributed evenly, and there’s a sharp correlation between higher income areas and higher educational achievement. As has been said before, a mind is a terrible to thing to waste, and to compete in the world’s 21st century economy, we need all the well-educated citizens and employees we can produce. To say nothing of the “equal opportunity” ethos we still hold up as a fundamental right for all of our kids. We can do this, and the promise of EdTech is still blinking bright for ubiquitous access to top-level learning opportunities.
But it’s not going to get there by itself; we’ll need local, state, and federal policies that support it. And as always, that’s going to involve some measure of political struggle to find a consensus on “how to do it”. As well as continued innovation in EdTech capabilities…”a killer app”?
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