Digital-Divide Disconnect
Welcome to the digital divide.
With little background information and no reference materials at home, one student attempts to put together a high-quality presentation for a classroom project using poster board and clipped pictures from old magazines. Another student in the same class downloads primary-source data from the Library of Congress, exchanges e-mail messages with a researcher at a distant university, and puts together a multimedia presentation using his laptop computer.
Welcome to the digital divide.
Unfortunately, the first student could now fall further behind, due to a marked change in federal policy. The Bush administration's proposed 2003 budget calls for the elimination of two critical digital-opportunity programs: the U.S. Department of Education's Community Technology Centers Program and the U.S. Department of...
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