The growing demand for greatly improved student outcomes combined with continued budget shortfalls in most states is creating a “General Motors Moment” for education; the product was already lackluster and now there is far less revenue to continue turning out what people weren’t buying anyway. Just as General Motors has been forced to reevaluate how it does business, so must education. And if the new electrically powered Chevy Volt is the future of General Motors, technology can be the future for education.