Here's a piece of interesting news: The Birmingham Board of Education has voted (8-to-1 vote) to run a pilot program with 1000 XOs between April 15th and September 1st of this year. If the pilot program goes well, they plan to use an additional 14,000 XOs with 1st to 8th graders.
The full article is at this link: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=53412 The momentum to introduce the OLPC program in the U.S. does seem to be picking up... Rena Brar Prayaga _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
