Arizona school won't use textbooks

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MSNBC said:
TUCSON, Ariz. - A high school in Vail will become the state's first all-wireless, all-laptop public school this fall. The 350 students at the school will not have traditional textbooks. Instead, they will use electronic and online articles as part of more traditional teacher lesson plans.

Vail Unified School District's decision to go with an all-electronic school is rare, experts say. Often, cost, insecurity, ignorance and institutional constraints prevent schools from making the leap away from paper.

"The efforts are very sporadic," said Mark Schneiderman, director of education policy for the Software and Information Industry Association. "A minority of communities are doing a good or very good job, but a large number are just not there on a number of levels."
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I'd have killed to go to a school that issued lappies and shit... There was a school in Spokane Valley about 20 mins away from my HS that was all wireless digital learning. Each student was issued a pretty nice Dell lappy.
 
yeah theres schools in sydney private schools that have to compulsory to have a laptop but they have to buy it and they just go to class and connect them selves up to the network and learn
 
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