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Apple updated its iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program to include iBook models manufactured between May 2001 and October 2003. The program, which was launched in January, covers repair or replacement of the logic board in iBook models that are experiencing specific component failures. The program originally included iBooks manufactured between May 2002 and April 2003. In April, it was expanded to include iBooks made between May 2002 and October 2003. Read More

Quaker Valley (Pennsylvania) School District officials are considering scaling back a program that provides approximately 1,700 iBooks to students in grades 3-12, according to the Tribune-Review.

A program intended to save teachers in Sewickley, Penn., time by giving students Apple laptops has gotten mixed results, according to an Associated Press story. Two years ago the Pennsylvania Department of Education chose the Quaker Valley School District for a pilot program that provided 1,800 iBooks to third through 12th graders. Teachers have found the laptops useful in tracking student progress, creating science models, and writing and grading papers.