News Corp to launch tablet education pilot

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http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/55254887/72341307/News_Corp_to_launch_tablet_education_pilot

NEW YORK (AP) — News Corp. on Monday named its grade school education business Amplify and said it and AT&T would fund a pilot project that aims to put tablet computers in students' hands in the coming school year.

AT&T will provide tablet computers that work on its 4G network and Wi-Fi network. None of the schools selected to participate will have to pay for the program. The company did not say which schools would take part or how they'd be selected.

The idea is to put tablet computers into the hands of students for use at school and at home. The system tracks their progress and is meant to tailor lessons to each student's level.

Amplify is being spun off from News Corp. along with newspapers in a planned reorganization of the company. It brings together the student assessment software business Wireless Generation with a new curriculum it is developing.

[Turbineguy]

1. "Amplify"

Good choice of names. "Amplify the Stupid" is just too long.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. News Corp is Murdoch ( FOX) and Klein... isn't it?

Klein... as in Joel Klein who ran the NYC system throughout the period of the famously-flim-flammed NYC /NYS state test scores debacle. ( All of the test scores were inflated to make it look as though kids were improving under Bloomberg/Klein. They weren't.)

>>>>News Corp., based in New York, announced in November 2010 that it would take a 90 percent stake in Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Wireless Generation, a creator of software tools for educators, for $360 million.

Former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, who joined News Corp. in January 2011 to head up its education initiatives, will lead the company.>>>>

Indeed it is he; one and the same.

350M. Wow. That's a lot of greenbacks.

So who... i.e. what governmental entity.... is going to be overseeing the fiscal fine print of this unholy alliance?