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Sunday, September 22, 2002
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/245/business/_37m_buys_experiment_in_schools+.shtml $37m buys experiment in schools Hiawatha Bray, Globe Columnist Reports from the nation's retailers suggest that the usual surge of back-to-school buying is rather muted this year. People just aren't buying as many pencil pouches and protractors as they used to, not to mention computers. Just as well for Apple Computer Inc. that the State of Maine is about to hand out 16,000 brand new iBook laptops to every public school seventh-grader in the state. Next year, Maine will pick up 20,000 more, for use by seventh- and eighth-graders. Each laptop will include wireless networking, allowing students to easily connect to each other and to the Internet. It's all part of a $37 million plan to make Maine school children the most wired in America. And while it will help Apple's quarterly earnings report, it's far from certain that the program will result in better-educated students....
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