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Article: Laptops going home with middle school students
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- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- February 10, 2007
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AUBURN - On typical evenings, MaryKate and Jaclyn Masters, both
13, do homework on laptop computers they take home from Auburn Middle
School.
Having laptops at home "is a great thing the state has done," said
their mother, Sandra Masters. The laptops help her twins do better-
quality school work, she said. "They've shown me PowerPoint
presentations they've done."
The family has a home computer, but it doesn't have the same
programs that teachers use in classrooms, Masters said.
Until this year, laptops didn't go home with Lewiston-Auburn
students because of fear they'd be stolen, broken or damaged.
But laptops at home was the intent of former Gov. Angus King's
program, who said all Maine ...