This piece by Peter Schramm is very true (it is a PDF since the article is not posted yet).

"I don't find students less capable than they were a generation ago.  In fact, I think in many ways they arrive at college better prepared than they were in the age of television, because they know that the world is slipping and sliding around too fast, and they are irritated by it, and are naturally looking for a still point in their universe.  This allows education to enter."

If I were king - and I'd be a great one - the education experiment that I would conduct would be to strip at least kindergarten through middle school classrooms of computers and television screens.  Instead of rolling racks of  in-classroom libraries, I would restore the school library to its full glory as a central place of reading and research - books, magazines, newspapers and, yes, a few Internet-enabled computers squarely in front of the librarian's desk (is it too late to return card catalogues?) 

Classroom would be de-cluttered of wall murals and charts on every possible thing a student could look at other than the teacher.

I would replace textbooks with books (okay, math and science textbooks may stay, maybe).  The great books.  Rather than teaching to tests, we would test what has been taught.  Still points would be set to prepare students for launch.