During Red Hat Summit in Boston this week, a documentary video was showed during the keynote sessions. This video describes the way Penn Manor school district used open source in their education project.
Charlie Reisinger is the IT director that lead this openness strategy, also delivered a TEDxTalk in Lancaster to tell the story.
I hope this can inspire a lot of schools to give their trust to the students and help them to develop their self-esteem and self-confidence.
More details here: http://summitblog.redhat.com/2015/06/24/open-source-stories-penn-manor-the-power-of-open-in-education/