RE: [school-discuss] What converting to Linux can do for a school

["wenheping" <wenheping2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Could you tell us in more detailed way that how "Linux+thin client" can 
improve math score?

---

> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:42:18 -0400
> From: dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [school-discuss] What converting to Linux can do for a school
> 
> Today, in our local paper, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, it was 
> reported that Brandon Elementary scored top in the District of Atlanta 
> Public Schools and third in the state on the standardized tests used 
> here in Georgia.  This is the school where William Fragakis and I 
> converted all the old, nonfunctioning PCs into Linux thin clients 
> running K12LTSP, got over 100 donated PCs from businesses, and bought 
> over 60 new NTAVO thin clients at $99 each and ended up more than 
> tripling the number of working PCs in each classroom.
> 
> Scores were up across the board, and math scores, in particular were up 
> sharply this year.  All of the teachers have told us how much having all 
> the Linux PCs have improved things, but this is the first hard evidence. 
>   Not that I'm a complete fan of all the testing that goes on here 
> lately, but test results are paid attention to by decision makers, many 
> of the ones we want to convince of the benefits of open source software 
> and thin client architectures.
> 
> Thanks to the group for all the support!  Daniel

---

这是将来的 Hotmail： 尝试 Windows Live Mail Beta