Tom Vander Ark: Tech Improves Learning and Saves Money

Angus King, former governor of Maine, decided Maine was going to lead the way into the 21st century with a laptop for every child.
Starting in 2002, Maine middle schools began converting to 1:1 learning environments. In Tom Greave's forward to a report in which he identifies nine key factors that improve learning and save money, he writes, "Project RED is nothing less than a blueprint for remaking American education ... through fundamentally altering how we do education, the first real change in the process of education itself in a thousand years."
The soon to be released MDR report is based on research in almost 1,000 schools during the last school year. The research team considered 22 variables and 11 success measures.
Click here to see a list of practices that appear to improve learning the most. Technology plays a big part in what is successful.