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Saturday, August 24, 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/510360p-4054526c.html Educators seek to measure Internet's impact on learning CHRISTIAN BOURGE, UPI Think Tank Correspondent WASHINGTON (August 23, 2002 10:53 p.m. EDT) - Although U.S. government efforts to connect public schools to the Internet have been highly successful, they have failed to result in an increase in student achievement on standardized tests, a recently published study says. "If the goal of the program was to increase the proportion of schools hooked up to the Internet - and specifically disadvantaged schools - it looks like the program was pretty efficient," said Austan Goolsbee, an economist at the University of Chicago and co-author of the study, "The Impact of Internet Subsidies in Public Schools." "However, we need to pay a lot more attention to the implementation of theses types of program so that they provide improved educational outcomes," he said....
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