Improving schools is HARD for techies and non-techies alike.
Education is one of the major iniatives of the Gates Foundation and Mrs Jobs main charity.
If the Newark experiment winds up being a catastrophe, we do still walk away with a postmortem teaching us interesting things about the problems we face, and debunking the notion that all schools need is more money.
Good intentions in philanthropy are a dime a dozen, actual results are less common.