New Chicago high school has high-tech emphasis

Freshmen won't need book bags filled with textbooks or even pencils and pens when they walk into a new Chicago public high school. Instead, they will be entering a mostly textbook-free world at Virtual Opportunities Inside a School Environment, one of 26 new or revitalized public schools to open today in the city. At VOISE, students will be flipping open personal laptops, not textbooks, to not only read -- but watch and hear -- online lessons packed with animation, video and quizzes. VOISE is one of three small high schools housed in the old Austin High building on the city's West Side.