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Notebooks Replace Textbooks in Texas

Posted by michael on from the pawn-shop-delight dept.

DrEnter writes "Yahoo! is running this article about an experiment at Johnson Elementary school in Dallas, Texas, which will provide an IBM ThinkPad to every 5th and 6th grader, each one loaded with electronic versions of textbooks and 2,000 other books. Apparently, due to rapidly increasing enrollment and long delays to get new books the school is trying to head off future problems. They also mention a similar program in Henrico County, Virginia, using iBooks and how some of these programs are affecting laptop design (like Apple replacing pop-out CD trays with CD slides)."

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  1. links by shreyank · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do we really need the link to yahoo.com? Isn't the link to the news.yahoo story enough?

  2. Separation of the church and the state by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    So can you tell me what's wrong with gay sex?

    Without any fairy-tales like religion.

    Can't.

    Too bad. Every heard about the separation of the church and the state. If all your arguments are religious, they're null and void. It's about time we started enforcing that separation.

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  4. Cool Beans by lukepent · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Interesting stuff. I'm from Texas! Try our delicious, well marbled Grass fed beef. Come visit our site, and find out how grass fed beef was meant to taste.