Look, Ma, No Schoolbooks!
VAIL, Arizona -- Students at Empire High School here started class this year with no textbooks -- but it wasn't because of a funding crisis. Instead, the school issued iBooks -- laptop computers by Apple Computer -- to each of its 340 students, becoming one of the first U.S. public schools to shun printed textbooks.
School officials believe the electronic materials will get students more engaged in learning. Empire High, which opened for the first time this year, was designed specifically to have a textbook-free environment.
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posted by Nishant Verma at 10:37 AM
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This really could work...unless they have internet access or video games on the comps. If so it's a failure before it starts.
And you'd think that they would NOT have those things but after reading the story about that law being passed regarding looking up women's skirts I can honestly say that nothing would surprise me. :\
~Sara<3
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