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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on July 14, 2010, 03:38:28 AM
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In the United States, Jacob L. Vigdor and Helen F. Ladd, professors of public policy at Duke University, reported similar findings. Their National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, “Scaling the Digital Divide,” published last month, looks at the arrival of broadband service in North Carolina between 2000 and 2005 and its effect on middle school test scores during that period. Students posted significantly lower math test scores after the first broadband service provider showed up in their neighborhood, and significantly lower reading scores as well when the number of broadband providers passed four.
The North Carolina study suggests the disconcerting possibility that home computers and Internet access have such a negative effect only on some groups and end up widening achievement gaps between socioeconomic groups. The expansion of broadband service was associated with a pronounced drop in test scores for black students in both reading and math, but no effect on the math scores and little on the reading scores of other students. In the report, the authors do not speculate about what caused the disparities. Neither author responded to a request for an interview.
The state of Texas recently completed a four-year experiment in “technology immersion.” The project spent $20 million in federal money on laptops distributed to 21 middle schools whose students were permitted to take the machines home. Another 21 schools that did not receive funds for laptops were designated as control schools.
At the conclusion, a report prepared by the Texas Center for Educational Research tried to make the case that test scores in some academic subjects improved slightly at participating schools over those of the control schools. But the differences were mixed and included lower scores for writing among the students at schools “immersed” in technology.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/11digi.html?_r=1
There goes another liberal pipe dream and promises of more Free StuffTM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/11digi.html?_r=1
There goes another liberal pipe dream and promises of more Free StuffTM
No it doesn't...just means they haven't found a way to twist the results yet.
...que Chubby Checker singing, "Lets twist again... like we did last summer...."
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How many billions in public dollars have been spent bringing computers to schools and having kids graduate that can`t spell correctly while typing on one?
You read DUmp threads about schools and it seems the common liberal mindset is that education should be to teach a person to think.
Well guess what?
You can think all day long but if you have no knowledge of facts it will not amount to or lead to anything.
That of course pretty much sums up the leftist belief system where black can be white and vice versa on a whim so no surprise.
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Hmmmm...but I bet they can surf the shit out of the Internet!
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/11digi.html?_r=1
There goes another liberal pipe dream and promises of more Free StuffTM
That would only be true if facts mattered to them, which over and over again has proven not to be the case.
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How many billions in public dollars have been spent bringing computers to schools and having kids graduate that can`t spell correctly while typing on one?
Yes, but at least they know 1337-speak.
LOL MIRYT?
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Who needs a better education when someone will supply you with a free computer and free internet access to find a lonely fat white woman to support you.
...and therein lies the source of all the discord between blacks and Mexicans....not enough lonely fat white women to go around.
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Who needs a better education when someone will supply you with a free computer and free internet access to find a lonely fat white woman to support you.
...and therein lies the source of all the discord between blacks and Mexicans....not enough lonely fat white women to go around.
Oh, I beg to differ. There are plenty of fat white women, but most of them are RACIST!
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Oh, I beg to differ. There are plenty of fat white women, but most of them are RACIST!
Yeah, my Ex is one of them, but she's not "racist"........... ;)
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Yeah, my Ex is one of them, but she's not "racist"........... ;)
Sounds like an episode of 'Squidbillies' on Cartoon Network...