The school district in Mooresville, North Carolina, created a 1-to-1 student to laptop ratio. They figured it'd take a while to get used to the technology and that scores wouldn't improve right away, but that eventually they'd be helped by more engaged students. They were of course wrong. Scores went up immediately.
This gets to the heart of the education debate (I'm currently working on a News 21 fellowship looking VERY deep into education). What are the core things that really need to change from the way our parents learned (as the system, in many places, still looks pretty similar). Hard to argue that technology relevant not only to kids now but also to their future jobs (if the economy hasn't exploded into a fiery ball of doom) isn't a positive thing to have in the classroom. Cursive, meanwhile, is falling by the wayside, to the dismay of basically nobody.
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