IDG Contributor Network: Lessons from broadcast spectrum auction can help close the Homework Gap

As a candidate and as President, John F. Kennedy pushed the government to remake the classroom. In 1960, he told the National Association of Educational Broadcasters that shoring up the “shameful weaknesses” of the nation’s classrooms was a question of “national survival.” Of all the modern presidents, Kennedy may have had the most prescient vision of what technology can do for society.Kennedy called the leading audiovisual technology of the time an instrument &ldq