OLPC alone, not enough to improve education

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 11, 2012 1:47 AM EDT
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A 15 month study of 319 primary schools in rural Peru by the Inter-American Development bank (IDB) has concluded that the One Laptop per Child project is not enough, at least on its own, to improve educational outcomes. This is believed to be the first evaluation of OLPC that looks at student learning and was performed by taking 320 schools of which 210 were randomly selected to get OLPC-XO laptops.

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Hmmm. Maybe the article unwittingly hints at a reason why.. dinotrac 29 2,111 Apr 12, 2012 3:17 PM

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