Comments on: How Prepared Is Too Prepared? http://neoacademic.com/2010/02/22/how-prepared-is-too-prepared/ technology, education and training research from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist in the ivory tower Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:54:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Shawna http://neoacademic.com/2010/02/22/how-prepared-is-too-prepared/#comment-1031 Shawna Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:39:31 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=568#comment-1031 Wow. How many teachers would $300 million hire? Or, more importantly, how many raises (just enough for teachers to feel rewarded) would it sustain?

I wonder if the random investments are another example of increasingly treating education as a business. Businesses can do crazy stuff because it distances them from competitors, whether or not any real result follows. But…education is not a competition, and difference for the sake of difference (or technology for the sake of technology, as you point out) isn’t helpful there.

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