Chicago Public Schools Teaches Google About Tech And Education

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Chicago Public Schools Teaches Google About Tech And Education

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More than half of all schoolchildren in the U.S. use Google education apps and Google Chromebooks-including kids in Chicago Public Schools. How did Google make such inroads in education? What are the benefits and drawbacks of having children use technology from a consumer-based company? And how did CPS teach Google how to do education right?

New York Times reporter Natasha Singer has been diving into these questions and more, and joins us to give us some answers.