| Empire High School in Vail, located on the edge of | | | | computers instead of textbooks. The Arizona schools |
| Tucson, is the first in the Arizona schools to be | | | | officials wanted to move teachers away from |
| all-electronic. Instead of textbooks, the 350 students | | | | habitual teaching from textbooks, cover-to-cover, |
| use wireless, Apple laptop computers to research, | | | | and gave area students the choice to attend Empire |
| organize their data, write and graph assignments, and | | | | or another school.Having researched schools in other |
| create class presentations.The Arizona schools Empire | | | | states prior to the all-electronic decision, Arizona |
| High is a new school with a blank slate. Arizona | | | | schools officials found students who were clearly |
| schools officials could hire new teachers committed | | | | more engaged in their studies and unusually |
| to technology-based teaching and purchase | | | | enthusiastic about school. |