California's Schwarzenegger

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Education Policy and Improving K-12 Education

Seeking to go Gutenberg 2.0, California's governor wants to move past books to online learning.

One thing in his way, the fact that there is only one computer for every 4 students on a typical campus.

Edweek.org requires guests to register to read this article here, but it's an AP article, so it's likely to find it on a different site without registering.

Would you be comfortable forgoing textbooks for kids? Can we count on every family having a computer and/or an Internet connection?

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Hi Tweety83,

At least in LAUSD, they've put off the adoption of any new textbooks for a year or two because of budget constraints, so this isn't going to be an issue for us.

I think they're discussing something along the lines of a Kindle machine, but at the rate kids lose books, I can only imagine how quickly they'd damage a Kindle.

And as someone who has to read textbooks online, there's a major difference. Assuming people start printing pages out, there'd be additional costs.

I think that is a good solution if we all could afford computers, unfortunately that is not the case in many low income communities. Given all of the cutbacks he is proposing, I dont see where he thinks they would have the money to buy more computers.

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