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Trotter, Andrew – Education Week, 2004
Maine is the first state to deliver "anytime, anywhere learning" to schools by providing laptop computers to every 7th and 8th grader in public schools statewide. It's an unprecedented attempt by a state to be a catalyst for school technology. The brainchild of then-Governor Angus King, the Independent who herded it through the…
Descriptors: Computers, Educational Technology, Grade 7, Grade 8