Can Wi-Fi boost performance of aging school districts?

Public schools in Raytown, Mo., have turned to high-speed Wi-Fi to help boost academic performance for students sharing laptops. The district serves about 8,000 students, nearly half of them on school lunch assistance, in an aging suburb nearly surrounded by Kansas City, Mo. About 1,500 laptops are used for a variety of subjects, including math, and are often shared by students and transported to classrooms via rolling computer carts where they connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi.

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