Surfing their way to school.

PositionTHE WEB - Students at Empire High School - Brief article

The 70-minute bus rides to and from school have never been very productive for students at Empire High School. in Vail, Arizona, outside Tucson. But things are different this year on bus No. 92, where the school installed a mobile Internet router. This high-tech experiment lets students surf the Web and actually get some homework done. (Well, it's not all homework: Video games and Facebook pages have also been spotted.) One morning last month, junior John O'Connell touched up an essay on World War I for his history crass, white sophomore...

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