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Sunday, October 13, 2002
http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-computer1004.artoct04,0,4556614.story?coll=hc%2Dheadlines%2Dlocal Teachers: Program Violating Law - Educators Say Students Taught By Computers ROBERT A. FRAHM, Courant Staff Writer Many schools rely on computers to bolster classroom lessons, but teachers in one small Connecticut district alleged Thursday that their school has gone too far. Teachers at Nonnewaug High School in Woodbury said that a dropout prevention program that began earlier this year is using computers - not to assist teachers, but to replace them. The students take lessons on the computer with only teacher aides to supervise them, teacher union officials said. "We have a program where the teacher does not do the instruction, give the assessment or grade the assessment," math teacher and Nonnewaug Teachers' Association president Tim Cleary said. Cleary and other teachers said they were asked to sign off on grades for the students even though in most cases they had never met them....
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