1.   And a study estimates that putting the best computer technology into American classrooms would increase the total cost of schooling by a third.

2.   Adapting to life in American classrooms, however, has not always been easy for the program participants.

3.   But such an approach does not work in American classrooms.

4.   Elsewhere, yoga is not yet common in American classrooms, but it is increasingly becoming part of the physical education curriculum nationwide.

5.   Even as chess has grown in popularity and gained a foothold in American classrooms, the sport remains mystifyingly male-dominated and oddly segregated.

6.   Foreign students at Choate, especially those from Asia, say that they are bewildered by the lax discipline in American classrooms.

7.   Most Russian and Eastern European students also walk into American classrooms with a tremendous schoolwork ethic, according to their teachers.

8.   Spelling bees have been a tradition in American classrooms since high-tech educational tools meant colored chalk for the blackboard.

9.   The American classroom today echoes with dire warnings about dangers and evils that seemingly lurk everywhere, from marijuana peddlers to child molesters.

10.   The last several decades have seen the triumph of an anti-intellectual egalitarianism in American classrooms.