Apple Details Plans For Educational Curriculum

Thu, 01/19/2012 - 18:03 EDT - Seeking Alpha

By TechCrunch:
Today at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Apple held an event to talk about two key things: “Reinventing textbooks” and “Reinventing curriculum.” But perhaps lost amid the tentpole announcements (iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and the all-new iTunes U) were some subtleties of those products and Apple’s plans for the education space. Among them:

“Education is deep in our DNA,” Apple SVP Phil Schiller said shortly after taking the stage. He then rattled off some starting statistics: high school students in the U.S. that enter as freshman have only a 70 percent chance of graduating. In urban areas, the statistic drops closer to 60 percent.
Among industrialized nations, the U.S. is 17th in reading, 31st in math, and 23rd in science. “We all want to do better than this,” Schiller said.
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