Originally Posted by DAD22
Why not focus instead on helping all students?

If the most cost effective way to improve academic performance for the next generation is to develop web-based teaching tools, then we shouldn't allow our fetish for helping those at the greatest risk to cloud our judgment.


We've been asked not to give internet-based homework at my school without an alternative for students who do not have internet at home. At least two of my students have not had electricity at home this semester.

And as far as using computers for schoolwork, our computer labs are largely filled up with classes taking the monthly benchmark tests from our restructuring consultants and the up-to-three-times a year state assessments for math, reading, and science. That reminds me. I need to try to find a computer lab slot for our research project. Wish me luck!