by STEPHEN THOMPSON, The Tampa Tribune
In what in all likelihood is a first for a secondary school in the United States, Clearwater High is planning on giving e-readers to all of its 2,100 students. Other high schools in Pinellas County are holding off to see whether, among other things, teens take responsibility for their new acquisitions, said John Just, assistant superintendent of management information systems for Pinellas schools. Right now, the school system has allocated $600,000 over a six-year period to buy the devices for Clearwater High, and it is currently negotiating with Amazon Kindle, Just said. Other brands of e-readers include the Nook and the Sony e-reader, he said.
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