Award-Winning Teachers Dole Out Advice on Fixing Public Schools

Publication: CNN.com
Date: August 30, 2010

Summary: CNN asked award-winning teachers how to fix public schools. Bruce Penniman, former co-director of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project and 1999 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year, emphasized access to technology.

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We may be in the internet age, but many school districts across the country still have inadequate access to computers, said Bruce Penniman, a former high school English teacher in Massachusetts who won several teaching awards in his 30-plus-year career.

Access to technology may be especially limited in a bad economy, but many teachers agree that computers in the classroom can be a vital learning tool.

"The whole question of resources is always a big one," said Penniman, who now works as a writing consultant. "We are still in an educational system where the kind of resources available depends on the ZIP code, and that's really a tragedy."

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