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Wednesday, October 02, 2002
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/internet/ Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994 - 2001 Since 1994, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has surveyed public schools to estimate access to information technology in schools and classrooms. In the fall of each academic year, a new nationally representative sample of approximately 1,000 public schools has been surveyed about Internet access and Internet-related topics. Although some items, such as those on school and classroom connectivity, have been constant on all surveys, new items have been added as technology has changed and new issues have arisen. For example, an item on types of Internet connections was added in 1996 and has remained part of the subsequent surveys, with some modifications. The fall 2001 survey included items on access to the Internet outside of regular school hours; technologies and procedures used to prevent student access to inappropriate material on the Internet; special hardware and software for students with disabilities; operating systems/platforms, memory capacity, and disk space on instructional computers; school Web sites; and laptop loans to students....
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