Guest commentary: AEI's Charles Murray on Using Technology to Transform Education

"In an age when teenagers master complex video games, track down arcana on the Web in a blinding flurry of keystrokes, pull things out of their cell phones that their parents never knew were in there and love every bit of it, we make them put all that aside at the classroom door. We tell them to sit quietly in groups of 25 or 30 and usually (with apologies to the many brilliant teachers who are out there) listen to a mediocre presentation of an uninspired curriculum," writes Charles Murray, the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
In the Washington Times op-ed, Murray adds, "the potential of ... virtual schools to transform secondary education exists."
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