ABC News:
Apple CEO Tim Cook is focusing on an academic revolution that aims to prepare these students for the 21st century.
The tech giant is part of the White House initiative known as ConnectED. The goal of the program is to connect 99 percent of U.S. schools to good technology.
“I think technology has to be a key part [of education] and that’s why we’re here,” Cook said. “Too many times today kids aren’t given the right for a great public education and this isn’t right. It’s not fair.
It’s great when Apple’s goals – selling products – mesh with the common good of better education. But I get a strong sense that Cook would be involved in these kinds of issues whether or not Apple was selling iPads to schools. He’s absolutely right that a good education is the key to many childrens’ future.
Sure he is right. But without having solved everything from public kindergartens and grammar schools to high schools first, the academic part alone will not make a huge difference. And the problems there can’t unfortunately all be solved by technology. (Young) People fall through the cracks long before university becomes an issue.
“Apple CEO Tim Cook is focusing on an academic revolution …” Analysts should finally be happy – a revolutionary Apple product!
We had more of those problems solved, right up until public schools underwent a slow degradation by people who want to privatize every government service by killing it first.
I got a great public school education in the 60s and 70s. Don’t assume today’s problems have always existed in their current form.
I like the way he uses his bully pulpit.