[OLPC-SF] Uruguay School Testing This Month

[Grant Bowman]

OLPC hits The Economist.  It will be interesting to see how they do!
The world is indeed watching.

Grant Bowman
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam


http://lwn.net/Articles/355411/
Laptops for all (Economist)
[Announcements] Posted Oct 4, 2009 21:22 UTC (Sun) by corbet

The Economist looks at the OLPC deployment[1] in Uruguay. "Nearly all of
Uruguay’s 380,000 primary-school pupils have now received a simple and
cheap XO laptop, a model developed by One Laptop Per Child, an NGO based
in Massachusetts. The government hopes this will help poorer and
disadvantaged children do better in school while also improving the
overall standard of education. These ambitions will be tested for the
first time later this month when every Uruguayan seven-year-old will
take online exams in a range of academic subjects. The rest of the world
should be intrigued: the first country in Latin America to provide free,
compulsory schooling will become the first, globally, to find out
whether furnishing a whole generation with laptops is a worthwhile
investment."

 [1] http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14558609