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October 19, 2005
Kids With Access to Home Computer More Likely to Graduate, Digital Divide Study Finds

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Access to a home computer increases the likelihood that children will graduate from high school, but blacks and Latinos are much less likely to have a computer at home than are whites, according to a new study by a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, that also found the digital divide is even more pronounced among children than adults. Read more from this post.
Posted on October 19, 2005 10:18 PM



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