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Podcast: レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast
Episode: Schools’ pandemic spending boosted tech companies. Did it help US students?
Description: An Associated Press (AP) analysis of public records found many of the largest school systems spent tens of millions of dollars in pandemic money on software and services from tech companies, including licenses for apps, games, and tutoring websites.
Schools, however, have little or no evidence the programs helped students. Some of the new software was rarely used.
The AP asked the nation’s 30 largest school districts for contracts funded by federal pandemic aid. About half provided records illuminating an array of software and technology, collectively called “edtech.”
Clark County schools in the Las Vegas area, for one, signed contracts worth...