Technology won’t fix America’s neediest schools. It makes bad education worse.

Screen Shot 2015-06-06 at 8.36.00 AM[N]o matter how good the design, and despite rigorous tests of impact, I have never seen technology systematically overcome the socio-economic divides that exist in education. Children who are behind need high-quality adult guidance more than anything else. Many people believe that technology “levels the playing field” of learning, but what I’ve discovered is that it does no such thing. —The Washington Post

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