Digital Domain: Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality

Researchers measuring a home computer’s educational value to a schoolchild in a low-income household are finding that test scores tend to go down, not up.

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Digital Domain: Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality

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