Yes, Classroom Tech Can Tackle Inequality—but Change Takes Politics and Patience
Digital Education Is Lifting Students While Challenging Academics and Silicon Valley
Even as digital technology has grown exponentially more sophisticated, accessible, and integral to our lives, social inequality has cast a deeper shadow across the United States in recent decades. Simultaneously, getting a quality education has become ever more essential for individual success and fulfillment.
The question of whether tech-enhanced education can help break down—or perhaps even erase—growing social divisions confronted a panel of educators brought together at a Zócalo/Arizona State University event titled “Can Digital Learning Dismantle the American Class System?”
The panelists’ collective answer: Digital education can indeed shake up rigid …
