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