Skills For Learning

General

• currently deployed in a limited number of classrooms on a pilot basis
• includes curricula and strict guidelines limiting use of high-tech tools in the classroom for children under the age of eight
• opponents say the program is unrealistic in a technological world
• advocates suggest that children who learn to read, write, and think critically in their early years without the aid of computing devices perform better on a broad range of metrics
• Board of Education plans to deploy the program in another 200 classrooms this fall
• parents' group Education Counts "bitterly divided over this issue"
• Teachers' Association of Perplex City issued a statement calling the guidelines "ridiculously strict," and suggesting that any gains in performance over more traditional methods of teaching are fleeting

References

• Perplex City Sentinel
  • article, "Board of Education Assesses Reforms" (link)