Now They're Giving the Kids (A)iPads (opens in new tab)

(And Chromebooks). Before we had a son, my wife and I had always assumed we'd send him to public school. But over his first year, we've been getting the feeling that it might be hard to find a public school whose curriculum isn't entirely mediated by iPad. It turns out we were wrong about that intuition, but only in the sense of the specific device: "In a national survey conducted by the Times last November, about eighty per cent of K-12 teachers said that their districts use Chromebooks," wh...