I’m almost embarrassed to like something that Rupert Murdoch wrote, but this is a well composed piece…

Rupert Murdoch: The Steve Jobs Model for Education Reform – WSJ.com: “You don’t get change by plugging in computers to schools designed for the industrial age. You get it by deploying technology that rewrites the rules of the game.

Our children are growing up in Steve Jobs’s world. They are eager to learn and quick to embrace new technology. Outside the classroom they take technology for granted—in what they read, in how they listen to music, in how they shop.

The minute they step back into their classrooms, it’s like going back in time. The top-down, one-size-fits-all approach frustrates the ones who could do more advanced work. And it leaves further and further behind those who need extra help to keep up.”

If Murdoch groks this, why don’t we?