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- From: cavrak@uvm.edu (Steve Cavrak)
- Subject: Back to School: MacWorld Issue on Computers and Education
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.013556.21234@uvm.edu>
- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 01:35:56 GMT
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- Check out the current issue of Macworld. It is dedicated
- to education.
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- MacWorld, September 1992
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- Special Reports on French, Japanese, and U. S. Educational
- Policies.
-
- On the Cover:
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- America's Shame: The Creation of the Technological Underclass in
- America's Public Schools - How We Abandoned Our Children's
- Future.
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- Contents:
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- SPECIAL ISSUE:
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- - Personal Computers in Education
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- For the last decade, America has invested heavily in programs to
- place personal computers in schools. We report on what our
- nation has accomplished so far and where we're headed. The prognosis
- is not encouraging.
-
- - Commentary/Jerry Borrell
-
- Congress and the Bush Adminstration are at loggerheads over
- who'll take the lead in getting personal computers to work in
- the classroom.
-
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- - Conspicuous Consumer / Deborah Branscum
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- What has kept computers from being integrated in public schools?
- Inadequate support, training, research, money, and will.
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- - Separate Realities / Charles Piller
-
- The failure of U.S. public schools to arm students with
- computing skills means many may never effectively compete in
- our technological world.
-
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- - The Official Word / Morton Kondracke
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- Our government's education policy claims to promote computer
- literacy - but do the results back up the rhetoric?
-
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- - The World View / Jean Cassagne and Toru IIyoshi
-
- Thought they face similar obstacles to implement computer-based
- learning, some countries are moving ahead of the United States -
- as these special reports from France and Japan show.
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