After ten years, there's no sign Maine has soured on it's laptop experiment. Schoolwork is more interesting. Kids are more engaged. Match scores are better, and so is reading. Even more important, the Maine laptop program has leveled the playing field, giving all students an opportunity to have access to all the exercises and resources they need. And they've become ubiquitous. "They'll say, 'I don't do too much with laptops,'" he said. "But you watch them in class, and you see teachers with classroom Web page where all kinds of information - homework, class work, recommended sites - is available. Teachers e-mail students and parents. They give out assignments on laptops. It's become so common it all seems mundane now."
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