Talk:USA

Why does olpc has such a difficult time being picked up in the USA educational landscape ?

Negroponte: The U.S. is a much harder problem. The system itself is part of the problem. Last I looked there were 15,000 school districts. How do you deal with 15,000 districts? You can’t really make the kinds of changes we found ourselves able to do in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uruguay or Peru. So it’s a harder problem, the way it’s organized the way it’s financed. More: http://newsroom.cisco.com/feature/1240339/Network-Trailblazer-A-Conversation-with-Nicholas-Negroponte-Founder-One-Laptop-per-Child?utm_medium=rss Same issue in Europe. I assume that just as in Europe, there is money available at the Ministry of Education and the institutions in the educational landscape, but it is a matter of being organized, following up the calls for proposals, the grants and fill them out. --SvenAERTS 16:59, 24 March 2014 (UTC)