From Robin Young's Here and Now show on 90.9 WBUR – Boston's NPR station … Schools Abandon Textbooks To Go All iPad:
Apple reports schools in more than 600 districts have bought iPads for all of their students. And it’s not happening just in wealthy suburbs. Schools in urban districts like New York City and Chicago are also handing out iPads.
In the Boston area, Burlington High School launched a one-to-one iPad program in the fall, providing a tablet for each student.
It cost the school about $500,000 for the devices, and the principal, Patrick Larkin, said the school paid for them within its existing budget.
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The school saved money by getting rid of its computer labs, abandoning plans to build a new language lab and deciding it would no longer buy new textbooks.
Larkin said they didn’t throw away the old books, but no longer need to buy new ones, since students and teachers can find everything they need online.
Larkin said the school isn’t even buying electronic versions of textbooks, since they end up costing the schools more than traditional ones in the long run.
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