Technology in Education

Commentary: Where's The Heat?

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''A teacher's musings on a blog about the frustrations of teaching My friends who are in business stare at me in disbelief when I tell them: •that the heat in my classroom doesn’t work. •that I don’t have air conditioning. •that my 1999 computer basically doesn’t work so I have to enter grades into the (required!) online gradebook at home. •that 150 teachers have access to only three copy machines, when usually one of those is out-of-service. •when my English department copier code ran out of the allotted copies, so I had to spend my own money at Kinko’s''

Schools are short of money and trained teachers to get benefits out of today's technology. Also, many of the software programs schools have purchased in math and reading are not making the grade, according to a study by Mathematica Policy Research and SRI International .