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		zozbot234 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in ... Are there any studies about the long-term educational effectiveness of those programs? They could definitely be effective wrt. teaching kids simple coding in BASIC or LOGO, but what about other kinds of outcomes?

jacquesm 4 days ago [–]

They bootstrapped the UK IT industry with this I would think that the outcome was successful beyond measure.

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