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The US Spent $30 Billion on Classroom Laptops and Got the First Generation Less Capable Than Its Parents


More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers -- distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools in 2002 â" neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate committee earlier this year that Gen Z is the first generation in modern histor...

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