Mooresville Graded School District’s 21st Century Digital Conversion initiative will put a laptop computer in every student’s hands. Ann Davis, executive director of secondary education for MGSD hopes the new computing abilities will engage students and reduce the drop-out rate, which until last year had been escalating annually.

“I think the students just disengage and I think they disengage a whole lot sooner than high school,” says Davis. “Everything is fast-paced and multimedia, and (they) walk around our schools across the nation and it still looks like a class from the 1950s. :” Her hope is that the one-to-one initiative will engage students and bring them more in touch with today’s learning.

The district is not relying on laptops alone. They also have initiatives for mentoring, advocacy, teacher training and virtual courses.

Source : Mooresville Tribune, Dropout rate slows, even improves, for high school