Arizona School to Implement All-Digital Curriculum

For the 2005-06 school year, a new Arizona high school will become one of the first in the country to exclusively use digital content, rather than traditional textbooks, in its classrooms. To enable the initiative, the school will distribute wireless-enabled Apple iBook laptops to all 350 students for the entire year. This and other high-profile technology initiatives may seem to signal an irresistable trend toward achieving 1-to-1 student-to-computer ratios in schools. But such high-profile cases overshadow the many practical barriers that continue to frustrate the realization of that milestone. At the close of the 2004-05 school year, Eduventures estimated that the student-to-computer ratio remained stagnant at slightly below 4-to-1.