| No Shock as Peru's One-to-One Laptops Miss Mark |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Five years ago Peru’s government equipped 800,000 of its public school students with low-cost laptops through the One Laptop Per Child initiative. The purpose was to use digital technology to fight poverty by boosting student learning. According to reports, such as this one in eSchool News, the effort in Peru has largely been a flop. The initiative cost the government more than $200 million. One person quoted in the story even wonders if it may have even widened the gaps between rich and poor students in the country. Ouch. Yet this was entirely predictable ahead of time. |
| Source: Forbes (USA) | Published: August 23rd, 2012 |
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