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Maine iBook initiative a 'success' in tests

updated 12:40 pm EST, Tue February 19, 2002

 
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"Maine can avoid the problems Henrico County, Virginia, suffered through intensive teacher training, policies that clearly spell out rules and expectations for students, and constant reminders that Internet searches and e-mail usage are being monitored," Superintendent Matthew Oliver wrote in his three-page paper distributed last week to some legislators and the media by the Department of Education.


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  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    02/19, 12:54pm | report spam | Reply |

    Excellent

    Wohoo First Post again.

    That was an excellent article as well as some positve news For Apple

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    To Old Mainer

    If only I was in 6th grade now then I would be getting a shiny new ibook instead I am going off to collage with nothing, they should have given the ibooks to collage bound seniors then I would be very happy. anywho great news for apple

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    College

    You do realize students get a 6% discount from the apple education store?

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    go back to 6th grade

    FYI, I believe you mean college and not collage.

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    Re: To Old Mainer

    They let you graduate the 6th grade, let alone high school, with that writing skill? ;)

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    Problems in Henricho?

    Oh come on! What's so bad about students using the Macs to download pornography? As if the people (that say they're worried) didn't do activities relative to that at that age.

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    Re: To old mainer

    They let you graduate the 6th grade, let alone high school, with that writing skill? ;)

    Hey, this is the US, home of the "Hey, he got 6 out of 7 letters correct, which is 85%. He passes." schools.

    And lets not forget the wonderful world of the grading curve! "OK, so I only got 40% of the answers right on my test, but everyone else knew less than I did, so I get an A!!!".

    Ain't Heigh skool grand!

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    Portable lab problems

    Training and proper setup is the key. I have a teacher friend using one of the iBook portable labs and it has been a bit of a mess getting it all working. 30 iBooks through one Airport connection seems a recipie for disaster. I think that they are even trying to NetBoot them. Kids punching keys because nothing is happening. The non-techies lose faith in the technology pretty quickly.

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