Laptop project benefits children in Peru

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has generated its share of skepticism since its announcement three years ago, according to an article in eSchool News. But children in the Andean village of Arahuay, Peru, can't get enough of their "XO" laptops.

Peru made the single biggest order of XO machines to date--more than 272,000--in an attempt to turn around a primary education system that the World Economic Forum recently ranked last among 131 countries surveyed. Fifty primary school children in Arahuay received machines from the OLPC project six months ago. To learn more, read the full article.