T.H.E. Journal is producing a three article series on the results of Michigan's Freedom to Learn (FTL) one-to-one laptop intiative.

This second article looks at the effects of FTL in different schools: Clare Middle School, Cherryland Middle SChool and Evergreen Christian School.

Clare Middle School has 500 students in grade 5-8. The articles looks at one classroom and how in the last three and a half years, the school has witnessed significant benefits of having technology in the classroom. Increased test scores, higher attendance, and fewer discipline problems have resulted from tthe implementation of this program.

Cherryland Middle School, which has 350 students participating in its laptop program, has witnessed about 80 percent of the students hardly using paper and pencil in one classroom.

Evergreen Christian School has 85 students in pre-kindergarten through sixth-grade and is significantly smaller than the other schools. The articles focuses on student increased writing proficiency in an fifth and sixth grade class with only 16 students.

To read more about the schools' success stories, click here.