Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com - 32 views
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Economists are trying to measure a home computer’s educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households.
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little or no educational benefit is found. Worse, computers seem to have further separated children in low-income households, whose test scores often decline after the machine arrives, from their more privileged counterparts.
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few children whose families obtained computers said they used the machines for homework. What they were used for — daily — was playing games.
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