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Educators debate whether computer use for young students makes them better learners or not. - Victoria Irwin, The Christian Science Monitor

Jody Spanglet's seventh- and eighth-grade students at Charlottesville Waldorf School in Virginia are studying revolutions. They dissect the Declaration of Independence, delve into the French rebellion against Louis XIV, and read about the various inventors who sparked the Industrial Revolution. But this study happens to be profoundly counterrevolutionary in today's cyber age: Not a single classroom in the school - from kindergarten though eighth grade - contains a computer.

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