Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Loving the laptops
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While some states are scrapping their programs, Maine's initiative enjoys broad support.
By BETH QUIMBY, Staff Writer May 21, 2007
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Mckenzie Loeser and Fred Randall, eighth-graders at Saco Middle School, edit rough drafts of English compositions from longhand writing and type their finished work on their laptops. Maine is still enthusiastic about its laptop program, which provides a laptop for every seventh- and eighth-grader.
LAPTOP PROGRAMS SCHOOLS WHERE one-on-one laptop programs have been extended beyond middle school: Mount Abram High School Hall-Dale High School Wiscasset High School Piscataquis Community High School Yarmouth High School Madawaska High School Van Buren District Secondary School Casco Bay High School Lubec Consolidated School Katahdin Middle-High School Upper Kennebec Valley Junior Senior High School Searsport District High School Mountain Valley High School Mount Desert Island High School
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