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How is the educational software sector regulated? I haven't heard of this before.

• newt0311 18y ago
  regulated because the government controls all the customers -- the elementary, middle, and high schools. It may not be direct regulation but it is dependent on government regulations all the same.
• bokonist 18y ago
  If you're selling straight to individuals it's not, but if you sell to schools, you are selling to an entirely socialized sector. A friend in Teach For America told me how his principal was obsessed with technology but had no ability to judge software. The result was that teachers and students were forced to use almost non-functional software that some company had duped the principal into buying. My friend said that if he had no ethics, he would go into selling educational software, be schools wasted so much money on crap programs. It ends up being entirely about sales and manipulating the bureaucracy, rather than creating the best software.
  • menloparkbum 18y ago
    ah, ok. the 'enterprise' market. I was thinking of "where in the world is carmen sandiego?"
• laut 18y ago
  For starters: The government runs schools and universities in the US.