The Maine Event

The Maine Event
Overview article describing the Maine laptop program and the evaluations - uniformly positive - that followed. "Students, teachers, principals, and parents across the Pine Tree State are relaying success stories for which the portable computers are credited. Stories of sullen truants transformed into outgoing school leaders. Stories of leveling the playing field. Stories of environmental projects or oral histories benefiting and uniting not just the school community, but the community at large. Stories of teachers reinvigorated by a new way of teaching that encourages real-world problem-solving and individual student initiative." There is, however, a downside to the laptop experiment: it ends. More...