Sentence examples for laptop programs from inspiring English sources

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.

But Mr. Warschauer, who supports laptop programs, said schools like Liverpool might be giving up too soon because it takes time to train teachers to use the new technology and integrate it into their classes.

"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.

Your Luddite-like fixation on the negative effects of laptop programs, which are merely the growing pains associated with the adoption of any new technology, misrepresents both the problems encountered and the progress made in the integration of high technology into America's high schools.

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

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

Mrs. Bolton credits the laptop program with helping a seventh grade team student win a statewide National History Day award.

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.

Anthony was also chosen to speak at conferences sponsored by Microsoft about why his school's laptop program made him a better student.