Not exact matches
The Fordham Institute estimated that the CCSS
cost $ 12.1 billion from 2012 to 2015.27 The conservative Pioneer Institute and American Principles
Project estimate a mid-range
cost of $ 15.8 billion over seven years for the CCSS, with $ 1.2 billion spent on assessments, $ 5.3 billion on professional development, and $ 6.9 billion for tech infrastructure and support.28 According to the New York Times, in part due to the CCSS, venture capital investment in public education has increased 80 percent since 2005, to a total of $ 632 million in 2012, a figure that has no doubt increased since.29 Bill Gates and Microsoft have cashed in on this lucrative market: in February 2014, Microsoft announced it was partnering with Pearson to install Pearson's Common Core materials onto Microsoft's Surface
tablet.30
All is not well with the Aakash
tablet, with getting even more murky with the ultra low
cost project.
In another interesting turn of events, DataWind — the company that was contracted to manufacture the ultra low
cost tablets — may now be allowed to continue with the
project after the initial batch of Aakash
tablets met with some harsh criticism.
Calling low -
cost tablet PC Aakash his unfulfilled dream, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday said he has pursued the
project despite not getting support from some government departments and that the tender for manufacturing the latest version will be finalised in January.
Since these companies already have a hand on experience of making
cost effective Smartphone and
tablet devices so they can do it for this government
project as well.
Denounce Intel's blatant corruption attempt, 4 days after the announcement of the $ 35 ARM Powered Android
Tablet project, Intel India is quick to suggest the Government should rather (basically give up on the ARM Powered
Tablet) and just use the «Donation of 1500 Intel powered
tablets» for pilot
project (to last a couple years or so preferably, enough time to delay all other real mass low
cost deployment attempts), same thing Intel did all over the world to block OLPC from reaching developing countries.
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