With technology, schools try to level the economic playing field

By Christina Veiga, Miami Herald

Researchers are learning that not all access to technology is equal. In fact, a growing body of evidence suggests that more technology may contribute to opportunity gaps between the rich and the poor. For example, a 2014 University of Connecticut study found that lower-income students were worse at locating and evaluating online information than their higher-income peers. “The digital divide still exists. It just exists differently than it ever has before,” said Susan Neuman, a professor of early literacy at New York University who has studied the issue. The findings have dramatic impacts on schools as technology becomes ubiquitous in classrooms.

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