![]() ![]() “We had just recently adopted Google Apps for Education as sort of a standard platform, a year before we got into our Google Chromebook rollout.” “For many of them it was their first experience,” Richland School District 2’s chief technology officer, Tom Cranmer, said. That makes for a sizeable student population that will become accustomed to utilizing Google services. South Carolina’s Richland School District 2 boasts 22,000 Chromebooks, which covers a student populace nearing 27,000, who also use Google Apps. “A lot of them have their own Google accounts that they use. “Students are using Google Apps in its entirety,” David Andrade, chief information officer of Bridgeport Public Schools, said. education market just yet, but appears to be well on its way.īridgeport Public Schools in Connecticut have already deployed 11,000 Chromebooks throughout the district, with 5,000 more on the way in the next year. K-12 schools, Google hasn’t captured the U.S. census recording 55.5 million enrolled in U.S. But this doesn’t count teachers and schools that informally use Google apps. Google says it has 30 million students, faculty and staff using Google Apps for Education, a free collaboration suite for schools, around the globe. (NASDAQ:MSFT), which has always been dominant in schools. ![]() (NASDAQ:AAPL) in its lean years and and of course Microsoft Corp. ![]() Through its offerings of apps and services, the Mountain View, California, search giant has largely taken over the education market, which was once a stronghold for Apple Inc. Google apps, services and increasingly, Chromebooks, have become ubiquitous in the American classroom and it's not hard to understand why: they require no expensive hardware, they never need to be updated, and they’re free, an important consideration for cash-strapped districts. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) products like Docs, Gmail, Sheets and Chrome. ![]() ReutersĪdd to things that American elementary school students must learn: read, write, share, play nicely, and increasingly, how to use Google Inc. education market with its apps and services. Google is well-positioned to take over the U.S. ![]()
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