The use of technology is growing in schools, but we’re missing critical opportunities if technology isn’t being used to close the pernicious achievement gaps between students of color and their white peers and between low-income students and their more affluent peers. While we’ve seen limited, and not necessarily linear, progress on the race gap, the […]
Neil Heffernan
Neil Heffernan is a professor of computer science and director of the Learning Sciences and Technologies Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is also a co-developer of ASSISTments, a free web-hosted digital homework platform.