The Economist on the initial results of Peru’s investment in One Laptop per Child:
Flush with mining revenues, the previous government embraced the laptop initiative. It spent $225m to supply and support 850,000 basic laptops to schools throughout the country. But Peruvians’ test scores remain dismal. Only 13% of seven-year-olds were at the required level in maths and only 30% in reading, the education ministry reported last month.
This is a good case study to illustrate that without good teachers and parents that give a shit, a laptop is just a tool without inspiration.