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Students at L.A. middle school get computers to take home
- 05-05-2010
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Blog by Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
Sixth-graders at Stevenson Middle School in Boyle Heights will get personal notebook computers to take home as part of a pilot program to provide technology to low-income students. The effort, formally unveiled Tuesday, is a public/private venture called School2Home, which is aimed at narrowing what has been called the “digital divide,” the gap in access to technology that separates the poor from the more prosperous. At many schools, advanced course work presumes home access to computers, printers and broadband Internet, yet many families still lack these tools. (more...)
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