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Friday, February 29, 2008
Reading, Writing and iPods? - Wendy K. Kleinman, The Oklahoman
The school buildings in this town of fewer than 1,000 people are built on an unassuming dirt hill. About 450 students are in the PreK-12 school, which is spread out on either side of a gravel road bearing a stop sign so old and weathered it is almost unrecognizable except by its shape. But while this school system near the Arkansas state line is relatively poor and small -- 75 percent of students qualify for subsidized lunches, and the superintendent doubles as a bus driver in the afternoon -- what goes on in the classrooms could be the envy of almost any other public school in the state. iPods loaded with content In a place where not everyone has a home Internet connection or even a home computer, every student in grades three through eight has a personal school laptop to work on, and students in some grades get to take home iPods loaded with class content.
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