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After seeing student work, reviewing the results of a student survey and hearing the comments of teachers involved in the program, the school board has decided to pursue a second year of their one-to-one program.
Students at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in the Boston area are issued laptops at the start of each day.
A one-to-one laptop program is part of a Scottsdale, Arizona, elementary school’s plan to refashion itself as a school focused on science, technology, engineering, math and geography.
Positive reception to Chelsea School District's sixth grade laptop program has administrators hoping for expansion to grades seven and beyond.
A one-to-one laptop program on Michigan's Lower Peninsula expands from a single grade to six.
Mooresville High School in North Carolina hopes that laptops will keep kids in school.
When Scales Elementary School in Tempe, Arizona, reopens as Scales Technology Academy in the fall, it will be the first one-to-one elementary school in the state.
Educators at Manistee High School are hoping to keep up with the times by moving away from textbooks and towards the daily use of computers.
Parents, students and teachers in Palm Springs, California, are enthusiastic about their school district’s new "24/7 Learning with Laptops" program.
At risk high school students in Alaska are benefiting from a program that places computers in their hands 24/7.
Sixth-graders at Trinity Lutheran School in Joppa, a Baltimore suburb, will be carrying laptops rather than textbooks this fall
Classroom laptops have positive effects on learning, according to Germany's "1,000 Times 1,000" study.
Two simple but powerful videos posted on YouTube paint a profile of today’s students and the gap between the way in which they learn best and the way in which our schools attempt to educate them.
In 2005, Empire High School in Tucson, AZ, made headlines for its decision to forgo textbooks in favor of the digital resources that a wireless one-to-one environment could make possible. Here's an update.
Students from Escambia County School District in Pensacola, Florida, recently got the chance of a lifetime – to start afresh in a high tech academy dedicated to academic excellence.
Students, teachers and administrators in Kansas City love their laptops.
A Florida ninth grader takes third prize with her essay on the advantages of laptops over textbooks.
MLTI's quarterly publication offers tips, resources and profiles of interesting projects.
A North Carolina district considers what’s next for its three-year-old, one-to-one initiative.
Indiana nursing students have access to laptops for computerized testing, thanks to a grant from AT&T.
A South Carolina charter school, still in the planning stages, aims to help at risk, low-income students excel with help from laptop computers.
Laptop envy prompts a rural Maine district to extend its laptop program to high school students.
As Southeastern Middle School in Bowen, IL, begins its laptop program, its leaders will be watching to see if students having access to a computer anytime, anywhere, will improve attendance, achievement and later employment.
A research study from the University of Southern Maine shows that the state’s one-to-one laptop program improves scores on writing skills assessments.
Cameron is one of 22 school districts to get laptops – and some great support services – for the 2007-08 school year through Texas' statewide TIP program.
A one-to-one program and online assessment software both help students in Hacienda La Puente improve their writing skills.
