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• July 21, 2010
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  Prepping Teachers for a 1:1 Laptop Initiative

  Posted: July 21st, 2010, 12:37pm EDT

  In 2008, children in Birmingham, AL, received XO computers through a government program designed to help bridge the digital divide for inner-city schoolchildren. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project put the low-cost, wireless devices into the hands of 15,000 students in first through sixth grades, making it the largest 1:1 distribution in the United States.