The Global Learning Xprize "challenges teams from around the world to develop open source and scalable software… the prize purse will be objectively awarded to the team that generates the best international standardized test scores within the group of participating children." Tanya Elias finds "many articles from news outlets celebrating this contest" but only one (from Audrey Watters) questioning it. "What happens," asks Elias, "when software engineers begin to believe that they can solve complex social problems about which they have neither background nor context? What happens to us, to our world, when we start to believe that they can do so?"
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