Published: October 1, 1993

Letters to the Editor

The Phone Factor

I applaud Jennifer Chauhan for her article "The Last Frontier'' [September], which thoroughly described the benefits of telephones in the classroom. In my role as president of a telecommunications company, I have seen many schools benefit from the use of telephones in the classroom, including the Lockwood (Mont.) school mentioned in your story, a school that is using telephones manufactured by my company.

In addition to the many telephone applications cited by Chauhan, Lockwood is using its phones for another extremely important purpose. Often, if a student at Lockwood does outstanding work, the teacher encourages the student to call his or her parents to inform them of the good news right then and there. Hearing the positive reinforcement from parents in "real time'' is extremely gratifying and has boosted...