Arizona High School Trades Textbooks For Laptops - 08/19/05

Arizona High School Trades Textbooks For Laptops - 08/19/05

John Miller / Associated Press

Teacher Becky Ogle, standing, holds her laptop computer as she explains how to use an Excel spreadsheet to a freshman class at Empire High School in Vail, Ariz.. Empire High School issued Apple laptop computers to every student instead of traditional textbooks, becoming among the first public schools nationally to make the electronic leap.

By Arthur H. Rotstein / Associated Press

VAIL, Ariz. — 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 Inc. — to each of its 340 students, becoming one of the first U.S. public schools to shun printed textbooks.

19 August, 2005 |

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