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And last year in Community School District 6 in upper Manhattan, administrators expanded a laptop program to include 4,500 students.
Most business applications require some database functions like storing and looking up price or customer information, whether in a Web page or a laptop program.
And that is not including the costs of training teachers, rebuilding courses to match the introduction of the Internet and paying for technical support -- all of which teachers say are absolutely required if a laptop program is going to work.
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It's supposed to be incredibly high tech -- TV screens in all classes, fancy computer lab and a full laptop program starting in the fall.
We have instituted a one-to-one Apple laptop program for students in Grade 6 and above, with computer labs and iPads for younger students.
Mrs. Bolton credits the laptop program with helping a seventh grade team student win a statewide National History Day award.
Anthony was also chosen to speak at conferences sponsored by Microsoft about why his school's laptop program made him a better student.
Here in Liverpool, parents have long criticized the cost of the laptop program: about $300,000 a year from the state, plus individual student leases of $25 a month, or $900 from 10th to 12th grades, for the take-home privilege.
At Carmen Arace Middle School, a public school in a low-slung brick building serving grades five through eight, the laptop program was initiated in response to a concern far graver than leaky roofs.
Whether that upswing is directly attributable to the laptop program is, however, an open question, since new reading and math programs were instituted at the same time.
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