Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops

SEEING NO PROGRESS, SOME SCHOOLS DROP LAPTOPS
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Winnie Hu]
A handful of schools around the country that adopted one-to-one computing programs and are now abandoning them as educationally empty — and worse. Many of these districts had sought to prepare their students for a technology-driven world and close the so-called digital divide between students who had computers at home and those who did not. “After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement — none,” said the school board president from one of the first districts in New York State to experiment with putting technology directly into students’ hands. “The teachers were telling us when there’s a one-to-one relationship between the student and the laptop, the box gets in the way. It’s a distraction to the educational process.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/education/04laptop.html
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