[Marketing] IDB principal evaluation economist claims no OLPC impact on education in Uruguay

[Walter Bender]

The telling two paragraphs:

> The main conclusion of the paper is that the results show
> no impact of the OLPC program on test scores in reading
> and math. This result is consistent with estimates for Israel,
> Perú,Romania, Nepal, and the US (North Carolina).
>
> So why do the laptops have no impact on learning in Uruguay?

The equate learning with test scores.

That said, the lack of use is a discouraging statistic. Would like to
know more about that one.

-walter




On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://blogs.iadb.org/desarrolloefectivo_en/2014/09/19/laptops-children-darth-vader/
>
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