Originally Posted by kane

Here is a short article about a school microsoft actually financed. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n2072454.shtml

There are not books or chalkboards or anything like that. Every kid has a laptop and everything is done on it. The cool thing, which is only touched on in the article, is how they integrate classes. You learn things and then apply what you learned in other subjects. So you learn math, then you learn how to apply that math in a science class. There are no regular classes, they almost teach freeform.

Here is microsofts page on it.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/schooloffuture.mspx

I think schools like this would actually help elevate our dying educational system.