Sentence examples for laptop program from inspiring English sources

"The laptop program has changed this school forever," said Kent Center's veteran principal, Ed Epstein.

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.

And last year in Community School District 6 in upper Manhattan, administrators expanded a laptop program to include 4,500 students.

"I guess I came to Morrisville after the laptop program had been going for a year or two," Ms. Millhouse said.

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.

Yet many educators are still engaged in vigorous debates about whether laptop programs are really the panacea that some claim.

Districts have dropped laptop programs after resistance from teachers, logistical and technical problems, and escalating maintenance costs.

One broad analysis of laptop programs like the one in Maine, for example, found that such programs are not a major factor in student performance.

The drive raised $35 million to "bootstrap" laptop programs in countries including Mongolia, Haiti, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Afghanistan, each of which will initially receive around 10,000 laptops.

"Rather than being a cure-all or silver bullet, one-to-one laptop programs may simply amplify what's already occurring — for better or worse," wrote Bryan Goodwin, spokesman for Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, a nonpartisan group that did the study, in an essay.