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Who's Doing It?

Over the past decade, the Hueneme School District in Port Hueneme, California, has used state and federal grant seed money, local resources, and significant assistance from private industry to fuel an aggressive research and development program and create networked smart classrooms. Located in an agricultural strip halfway between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, more than half of the district's students come from low-income households, and approximately 30 percent have limited-proficiency or no English at the time they register for school. The school district turned to computer-assisted instruction in part as a means to fundamentally change and improve the way these children learn. Begun in 1983, the move to smart classrooms has been a long process, but results have been phenomenal: increases in student achievement, increased daily attendance, and a decline in discipline problems.

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