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Article: In Some Schools, iPods Are Required Listening - New York Times
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- October 9, 2007
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A ban on iPods is so strictly enforced at Jose Marti Middle School that as many as three a week are confiscated from students -- and returned only to their parents. But even as students have been told to leave their iPods at home, the school here in Hudson County has been handing out the portable digital players to help bilingual students with limited English ability sharpen their vocabulary and grammar by singing along to popular songs. Next month, the Union City district will give out 300 iPods at its schools as part of a $130,000 experiment in one of New Jersey's poorest urban school systems. The effort has spurred a handful of other districts in the state, including the ones in Perth ...
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Article: Duke University to Continue to Utilize Apple iPods for ...
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... ... year-long effort to incorporate Apple iPods into the curriculum, Duke University will ... the university distributed about 1,600 iPods pre-loaded with orientation material ... enrolls in a course whose proposed use of iPods is coordinated through CIT. Students who ...
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