... them flexibility in assigning homework and the ability to answer student questions more readily through e-mail. At New York City's Mott Hall, 30 sixth-graders have been given laptops instead of textbooks. The Toshiba laptops, bought by the school district earlier this year, are leased to the students for $30 a month. The school district is satisfied with the program and has decided ... University's Larry Cuban He adds, "Schools that bought into the earlier generation of technology are stuck. The capital investment in desktops makes it difficult to buy this new thing called laptops." Com...

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