Maybe, say the authors, but the schools surveyed had been using the scheme's computers for a full school year.

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Associated Press said that at least 18 pupils were involved in the phishing, which gave them control over 300 computers allocated for student use at the school in the Alaskan town of Ketchikan.

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They highlighted a lack of modern resources such as computers, the long delay it often takes for needed school supplies and resources to reach them and how many of the trees that supply needed shade during the lot of school days are being needlessly cut down.

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In the last few years, she's helped poor families pay school fees for their children and brought computers to classrooms.

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The new school features more than 700 computers -- one for every three students.

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Greg Bowers, who teaches at the Missouri School of Journalism, says computers don't have the same capacity for pitch, emotion and story structure.

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Officials say much of the funding will be used for technical assistance, such as crime mapping, where computers and statistical analyses help police pinpoint where and when school-related crimes are most likely to occur.

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John Taylor was Becta's head of school improvement, working with head teachers to help them use and plan for the best use of computers in their schools.

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