President's Misguided Plan to Connect Schools To the Internet

President Obama has recently raised the budget for classroom technology across the nation from $2.25 billion to $4 billion a year. The idea was that because a school in North Carolina received funding from the E-Rate program and the students had showed improved performance in the classroom the President believed that all schools should receive even more money to help students. This however failed miserably. Thomas Hazlett, the author of "Obama's Misguided Plan to Connect Schools to the Internet", and some of his colleagues did a study on whether the E-Rate Program really  helped students or not. The study showed that schools the revived the most funding had students do even worse on the SAT than schools that were in better neighborhoods and received little funding. Schools in L.A. though that it would be nice if each student had received iPads, but schools soon found out that kids became distracted and found ways around the set firewalls. Currently the E-Rate Program still stands but Hazlett believes that the program should be suspended until test and studies are done nationally to determine whether to terminate the program, put the $4 billion in different parts of school systems, or to reinstate.