Pulling Tech Out of Idaho Education with Alex Zamora

Alex Zamora is the superintendent of the Wilder School District. Wilder integrated a tech heavy curriculum roughly 7 years ago when Ivanka Trump and Tim Cook visited the district, but after years of seeing lackluster educational performance, the district switched back to classic curriculum and is improving significantly. As Alex pointed out, tech companies frequently over promise and under deliver, and almost none of them has any studies or large scale results as evidence of efficacy ahead of time. If you want to understand how we navigate tech and education quality in Idaho, this is a good place to start. Enjoy!

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