In a New York Sun article, a pilot project is described in which students in two urban elementary schools will receive the same low-cost XO laptop designed for 3rd world children. While it's not an "in depth" description of the project, the school system's IT Director is interviewed, and several points of view are presented. One goal of the project is to make the laptops available to other city principals to order for their students. A study will be conducted to explore the effect of the pilot. A similar project in underway in Birmingham, Alabama, in which 15,000 XO laptops are being given to all students in grades 1 through 8. Birmingham completed a successful pilot last year.
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