








Isidore Newman School and Academy of the Sacred Heart's campuses also have wireless capability, and about 80 percent of Metairie Park Country Day's campus is wireless. Country Day implemented a program where all freshmen students will have a Gateway M-280 convertible tablet computer. At Chapelle, computers are used on a regular basis in grade levels eight through 12. "We don't have a one-to-one student to laptop ratio, but we use them in portable labs in almost every subject," said Jane Ann Frosch]. "We're trying to teach our students that technology is a part of our everyday lives." Mandeville High School has 700 computers, with 95 percent connected to the Internet and 100 wireless laptop computers that can be moved from classroom to classroom. Each teacher has a desktop computer and classrooms typically have three to five computers for students to use. There are 20 "model classrooms," defined by the state as a classroom with a minimal 5-to-1 ratio of student to Internet-connected PCs. With New Orleans Public Schools, "most schools have some laptops," said Peggy Abadie]. Typically, a lab at one of these schools consist of 30 to 32 computers, and many of the laptops are brand new, having just replaced ones lost during Hurricane Katrina, said Abadie.
