Comment This is not new, Maine has been doing this awhile (Score 1) 478
This is not ground breaking news. Maine has had a laptop program in existence for no less than 7-8 years. The idea that they are using iPad's is just a matter of choice and bidding between a PC vendor and Apple who makes deals directly. They not only have the iPad's they also get classroom gear such as whiteboards that will transmit what the teachers write on it to the iPad. Each classroom has one and they go for 20k each retail. They also come with a boat load of software packages. I won't get into whether it's worth it or not... I'm not a big believer in public education as it is today...