Kids, computers, books

The National Bureau of Economic Research has begun circulating a report on what seems to be the largest study yet of what happens when you give a kid a computer. The news is not good, as has been reported in the last few days by David Wessel at the Wall Street Journal and by the Freakonomics crew at the New York Times. The study, conducted by Jacob Vigdor and Helen Ladd at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, examined extensive data on all public school students in North Carolin...