education
07/27/2005, 8:45am, EDT
Wednesday, July 27th
Apple supplies 30,000 Florida students with iBooks
Apple today announced that it will supply 30,000 new iBook G4s to Broward County Public Schools for use by all of its K-12 students in the Ft. Lauderdale, FL area. "We're excited to work with Broward County to provide students with the best learning tools available," said Tim Cook, Apple's executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Operations. "Thousands of schools across the country have improved academic achievement with the help of Apple's education solutions, and the addition of 30,000 iBooks will do much to help provide students with necessary 21st century skills."
According to the press release, Apple said that the new iBooks would greatly increase students' access to the latest technology for learning, authoring and communication.
"As one of the nation's leading school districts, Broward County Public Schools has long used technology to enhance teaching and learning," said Dr. Frank Till, superintendent of Broward County Public Schools. "The new iBooks are ideally suited to meet the needs of our students, and demonstrate Apple's commitment to education."
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nuff said
Yes, I have family that work for that school system :)
TK
30,000 machines is a whopping ten percent of the total, but it is a hell of an expense when we have the maximum classroom population set at 25 and have to hire teachers like they are going out of style. First year teachers probably cost about 40,000 a year for the first few years.