Recent
years have also brought a principled critique by influential scholars — E.D. Hirsch, Grover Whitehurst, and Diane Ravitch
come immediately to mind — of both standards - based reform and school choice, on the grounds that these
changes neglect crucial issues of curriculum and instruction (and so neglect what actually goes on
in classrooms between teachers and students).
Only a few
years ago, Apple's iPads and MacBooks were the devices that were being used
in every
classroom in the U.S.. However, ever since the cheaper Google Chromebook
came along, things have
changed.