As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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So digital textbooks could widen the gap between rich and poor.
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Bruce Vigneault on 09 Aug 09This is true. In our district, about 7% of the students do not have home internet access. Most of these students live far from town/library and don't have transportation to get to the access points.
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A large portion of our kids don’t have computers at home, and it would be way too costly to print out the digital textbooks
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You wouldn't print them. Hard copy textbooks are already available. You would not need to buy a lot of them. Seems like it still would be cheaper in the long run. Especially, when you consider the cost of updating information.
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