School district first to permit cell phone use during standardized tests

Posted by bruth on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @04:06PM
from the radar.oreilly.com dept.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/school-district-first-to-permi.html

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Re:School district first to permit cell phone use during sta... by rchowe on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @04:52PM (#2711253)

> Source: Green Onion News Network

Combined with the fact that no state was mentioned, i think this is a work of parody.

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Re:School district first to permit cell phone use during sta... by TheMystic on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @05:07PM (#2711331)

Tim O'Reilly tweeted it as if it weren't: https://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/86171985373179905

I was taken in at first too—which means it's well-written satire, if it's not true. But either way, the point is this: learning to look things up is not at all the same thing as learning to learn.

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