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Direct linkGoolsbee, Austan; Guryan, Jonathan – Education Next, 2006
The best evidence of the concern over the digital divide was the speed with which the federal government interceded to help close it. A program offering generous subsidies to schools and libraries for the purchase of Internet technology was made part of the massive overhaul of the Telecommunications Act in 1996. The subsidies were apportioned on a…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Internet, Grants, Telecommunications
