Scotland schools set to adopt Maine-style iBook program
School chiefs in Edinburgh, Scotland are planning to adopt a program to provide laptops to every student over the age of nine after being inspired by Governor Angus King’s initiative to bring iBooks to every seventh and eighth grader in Maine, according to the Edinburgh News. After an overseas trip to the U.S., city education leader Ewan Aitken claimed that early indications from the program under way at 239 middle schools in Maine had shown the laptops improved discipline, behavior, attendance and attainment.
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