High School Ditches Textbooks

In what I'm sure is the first of many, Empire High in Vail Arizona will open next fall without textbooks. Each student will receive a laptop and a wireless internet connection and teachers will be required to have online lesson plans using articles available on the web. This does two things:

1. Provides students with laptops and gets them used to using technology.
2. Keeps teachers from getting in a rut.

This sounds like an interesting experiment and I hope we hear from the teachers and students after they have the chance to see how it goes.

Story courtesy of MSNBC (AP)