By Fritz Edelstein
April 11, 2005

Popular Science Magazine ranked Boston as the leading city in the United States for its innovative use of educational technology. Following in the city's long standing tradition of being on the cutting edge of ingenuity and invention, Boston continues to blaze the path in its efforts to be a leader in educational technology. Boston has a long history of being the site of firsts such as the invention of the telephone, sewing machine, vulcanized rubber, Polaroid camera, microwave oven, artificial limbs, synthetic penicillin, e-mail, and the first computers.

Back in 1998, Boston Public Schools became the first major school system to connect all of its schools to the Internet. Eighty percent of public school children are equipped with a computer at school.

The runner-up cities were Houston, Raleigh, Philadelphia, Washington (DC), Atlanta, Baltimore, New York City, Chicago and San Diego.