“Well, we’ve had several studies on this, and we now have a new study that -- I won’t get into details … -- many consider a better study to try to ascertain if computers help.

“The results are very interesting – the results show that computers appear to help elementary students do better,” he says, “but not so much in math classes, where you might think computers would help, but more so in language classes. The positive impacts, however, take time to be revealed – maybe over two years.

“Now, in contrast, the study found no positive impacts from computers for student achievement in high schools. Clearly these are not the last words on the topic,” he concludes, “but I think this does give us some valuable information.”