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Apple’s education event is underway at New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, where Phil Schiller, the company’s vice president of worldwide marketing, provided an update on key metrics related to Apple’s education business. Remarking that the United States “is not at the top of industrialized nations,” Schiller said: “If you’re a freshman, you only have a 70 percent chance of graduating.”
After playing a video that outlined the problem with U.S. education today, Schiller said “no one person or company” could fix it all. Apple, of course, will try. The basis for such an ambitious undertaking, of course, is the iPad, which Schiller said was No. 1 on kids wish lists this holiday season. The goal is to help integrate the iPad into the curriculum.
However, the iPad is already strong in education. Here are some interesting metrics:
– more than 20,000 education apps in the App Store, explicitly for iPad – some of the apps mentioned on stage include The Elements, Frog Dissection, Virtual Rome, Art Authority, and more) – there are now over 1.5 million iPads in use in education institutions – over a thousand iPads are used in one-to-one programs – iBookstore is “packed with books” – over 700 million downloads from iTunes U
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