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Logging on to learn: All Fairfax County high school students getting laptops

August 11, 2019 at 7:22 p.m. EDT
All high school students in Fairfax County Public Schools will receive laptops for the school year that starts at the end of August. (iStock)

At the end of some classes, Kimberly Scott directs her students at Chantilly High School to open Google Docs or Google Forms on their school-issued laptops and share two insights and one conundrum they took away from the day’s lesson.

The 10th-grade English teacher in the Northern Virginia suburbs exports the students’ responses to a spreadsheet, which she saves and from which she aggregates. Scott, who has taught for nearly 25 years, used to collect the answers on paper slips as students made their way out of class.