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July 27, 2006, 01:50 PM ET
A Cool Reception for One Laptop Per Child
Nicholas Negroponte is eager to bring his One Laptop Per Child project (The Chronicle, November 25, 2005) to India, but he may be facing a bit of a glitch: The nation’s leading committee on educational matters is none too excited about the plan.
In April, Mr. Negroponte made a presentation to Indian officials, asking them to buy one million of his $100 laptops, which are designed for children in developing nations. But the nation’s Ministry of Human Resource Development has now issued a fairly strenuous objection to the proposal, arguing that it "would be impossible to justify an expenditure of this scale on a debatable scheme," according to The Times of India.
Despite the cool reception, Mr. Negroponte returned to New Delhi this month to make another pitch. —Brock Read
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