All students at LA Unified will be issued iPads under a program estimated to cost a billion dollars. But it turns out there's a hitch. Three hundred students at Theodore Roosevelt High School alone have hacked through security in order to surf the Internet. Howard Blume reports on education for the LA Times.
If You Give Kids iPads, Can You Keep Them off the Web?
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Credits
Guests:
Howard Blume - education reporter for the Los Angeles Times -
@howardblume,
Steve Zimmer - LA Unified School District; candidate for School Board District 4 seat -
@lausd_zimmer,
Peter Reiher - UCLA
Host:
Warren Olney
Producers:
Christian Bordal,
Anna Scott,
Andrea Brody