“We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.”
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Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.
The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
