Journalist Calls Out ‘Collective Amnesia’ of Schools’ Romance with Big Tech

What happened

In her new book, Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools, Natasha Singer, a veteran business reporter for The New York Times, traces Big Tech’s bid to persuade schools to embrace their products, with industry-sponsored curricula and tools growing at astonishing speed.

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