I may live in Arizona, but it was the New York Times that informed me about an innovative Arizona school that has attached a mobile Internet router to one of their school bus' frame. The students have nicknamed it the Internet Bus

This school bus travels a 70-minute route along desert and mountain terrain. The ride, which used to be punctuated by rowdiness and sometimes fighting, is now filled with students doing homework, researching papers, answering email, and playing video games.

The school has district officials to thank for this innovation. They started traveling to meetings in Phoenix--a two-hour drive--in pairs so one could drive and the other could work on a laptop. Later one of them saw an ad for a mobile router for a car and wondered if it could work on a bus. And work it does. District officials have been pleased to see the amount of homework getting done, and the bus driver is pleased as well. "It's made a big difference. Boys aren't hitting each other, girls are busy, and there's not so much jumping around."