Microsoft High School

I just read an article about a school that was run by Microsoft. Instead of books, the school is run entirely from computers. The $63 million project school was started in an area with at risk kids. The hope was that the kids would be equipped with technology skills that would help them get jobs. After three years in operation the school has been deemed a failure. The school, dreamed up by Bill Gates, has gone through four principles and has never had any good leaders. I personally think the school is a bad idea because students need books! Apparently they even decided to forgo a library in favor of more computers. Kids need to hold books and be able to take them home and study them. A school based entirely around technology sounds good, but I think it would have worked better if paired with a more traditional style of education. Computers are good, but they will never take the place of a good old fashioned book!