Computers may do harm to elementary school students

Joanne Jacobs: "Computers do no good in elementary classrooms and may do harm by shortening attention spans, says this story in Education Reporter." See also The Flickering Mind, by Todd Oppenheimer, which notes that music education, which has been drastically cut, actually does more to improve math scores. (Full disclosure: I was a source Oppenheimer employed while he researched his book.)