Many U.S. schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks
World BusinessSept 5, 2011
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) ― For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut’s suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer. A few hours away, every student at Burlington High School near Boston will also start the year with new school-issued iPads, each loaded...