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Detroit Public Schools: 40,000 kids to get laptops from stimulus funds
Detroit Free Press | 1/4/11

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Technical Difficulties
Education Next | Fall 2004

Detroit Public Schools will spend $49 million in federal stimulus funds to buy laptops for 40,000 students in grades 6-12.  In the Fall 2004 issue of Ed Next, Rick Hess wrote about other attempts by states and districts to boost achievement by passing out laptops. ” The tendency,” he noted, “has been to sprinkle computers and Internet connections across classrooms in the pleasant hope that teachers will integrate them into their lessons.”