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...Uruguayan program, which will provide hundreds of thousands of laptops to Uruguay??s schoolchildren, does so at a reasonable initial cost of $260 per child plus $21 per year per child to maintain the program. At less than $300 per child and less than five percent of Uruguay??s total education budget, their government has managed to give the country’s youth a chance to become technologically proficient in a world where a basic understanding of technology is quickly becoming a prerequisite to success...
Galeano is one of Uruguay??s most prominent authors and many of his books have been translated into English. His title comes from an 18th century criers’ pitch for magic lanterns that implores, “Step into the school of the upside-down world!” And Upside Down does read a bit like a school textbook. It is a litany of declarative sentences such as, “Fear is the raw material that sustains the flourishing industries of private security and social control, and it’s in steady supply...
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