The purple device this person is using is an Ignite!Learning "Curriculum on Wheels" or COW. The COW contains a stand-alone PC, preloaded with curriculum content, with an integrated data projector. Ignite!Learning is headed by Neil Bush, brother of George. A larger number of COWs - which cost ~$4000, and are said to cost a futher $1000/year to maintain [link dead, August 2012], have been bought for Texas and other schools.
According to the 22 October 2006 Los Angeles Times:
"A company headed by President Bush's brother and partly owned by his parents is benefiting from Republican connections and federal dollars targeted for economically disadvantaged students under the No Child Left Behind Act."
Ignite!Learning has plans to expand outside the US. So watch out.
Links:
- Bush's family profits from 'No Child' act - Los Angeles Times, by Walter Roche, 22 October 2006;
- No Bush Left Behind - The President's brother Neil is making hay from school reform - Business Week, by Keith Epstein, 16 October 2006.
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