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The reason: L.A. Unified selected a relatively costly product — a higher-end Apple iPad — and also paid for a new math and English curriculum installed on the tablets. 
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The city best known for its Wild West heritage is expanding the frontier again; this time for its broad deployment of iPad in its public schools.
Fiona Harvey's insight:
Yet more schools providing Apple tablets. It will be interesting to see how they evolve and if the Schools in the US share implementation issues etc.
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This articles talks about how the tools within iPads combined with an app have shown to improve the results of children in LA
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That mammoth iPad roll-out to students in the Los Angeles Unified School District just got a whole lot bigger, with the district confirming that Apple tablets will come to all 640,000 students by 2014.
Fiona Harvey's insight:
Seems the LA School Dstrict are not 'worried' about being tied down to one platform. I can't see why this would be a problem, if the platform works ;-)
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This article refers to range of USA institutions comparing tablet and laptop usage and notes that the iPad is more expensive because of curriculum requirements (Pearson math and English added $200 per device). One thing that stood out for me was the comments from the education institutions, throughout this they mention bigger screens, being able to print etc, nothing about affordances of tablets against laptops which indicates that staff development may be needed - devices are only as good as the people using them.