Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks

HARTFORD, Conn.—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. © Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights ...

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