Wired does a comprehensive article about all the different colleges and universities giving away free iPads. Schools include North Carolina State, Seton Hill University, Reed College, Unversity of Maryland, Duke University, and George Fox University. Some schools are giving them to every full-time student while others are giving them to only 30 students. Regardless of the number, these schools are getting a lot of press.

As many university students and employees have already noticed, Apple is not offering a student discount on the iPad. Now it is coming out that iPad education orders are not being shipped with priority given to non-education customers.

Seton Hill University is promising a brand new iPad and iBook to all students starting school in the Fall. This move has received a lot of press, but mostly it serves as a market indicator of the huge potential of e-textbooks for the iPad.

A good article by John Paczkowski about how education sales will be a chance for Apple to regain classroom marketshare. Price and education products (such as textbooks and apps) will build up the iPad as a quintessential educational tool.