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PARKS, Ariz. (AP) — Students in Patrick Brown's sixth-grade science class grab laptops from cubby holes for a lesson on water data.

Type in "High Adventure Science," he tells them, writing the words on the whiteboard. He then quizzes the 10 students sitting in metal chairs with worn cushions on porosity, permeability and salinity.

One student interjects and says "I saw your son today."

At the small grade school tucked into the ponderosa pine forest about 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) west of Flagstaff, most everyone knows each other. The Maine Consolidated School in Parks has an average teacher t...