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A Laptops-to-Success Story – Mooresville’s Shining Example (It’s Not Just About the Laptops)

February 13, 2012 /

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Sixty educators from across the nation roamed the halls and ringed the rooms of East Mooresville Intermediate School, searching for the secret formula. They found it in Erin Holsinger’s fifth-grade math class.

"This is not about the technology," Mark Edwards, superintendent of Mooresville Graded School District, would tell the visitors later over lunch. "It’s not about the box. It’s about changing the culture of instruction — preparing students for their future, not our past."

By ALAN SCHWARZ

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/education/mooresville-school-district-a-laptop-success-story.html?hp

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