“If a state is looking at this from a state’s perspective, I think it’s important to make sure to define your own terms for success,” Mao said. “This is one of the things that we didn’t really do clearly at the beginning, and we’ve been playing a little bit of catch-up ever since. … We didn’t clearly define what we thought success would look like.”
He said it’s important for proponents of a one-to-one laptop program to know their educational goals, in order to explain to their constituents why such a program is worth the funding.