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Survey Finds 85% of Underserved Students Have Access To Only One Digital Device (educationdive.com)

Posted by msmash on from the digital-divide dept.

A new research [PDF] on students who took the ACT test, conducted by the ACT Center for Equity in Learning, found that 85% of underserved (meaning low income, minority, or first generation in college) students had access to only one device at home, most often a smartphone. From a blog post: American Indian/Alaskan, Hispanic/Latino, and African American students had the least access. White and Asian students had the most. Nearly a quarter of students who reported that family income was less that $36,000 a year had access to only a single device at home, a 19% gap compared to students whose family income was more than $100,000.

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  1. "Underserved?" by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    underserved (meaning low income, minority, or first generation in college)

    So ... being a minority, by definition, means you are underserved? Being the first person in your family to go to college means you are being underserved?

    This sort of "words no longer mean anything" crap has completely swamped the entire educational establishment.

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  2. Re:Are you sure... by Darinbob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Times have changed, but people are still people. You can become a top tier scientist without growing up with computers or modern phones. Probably better without, as the 'smart' phones tend to make people dumb.

    Start with solid education FIRST. Learn to do arithmetic without a calculator, learn to do research without Google, learn to read a book without swiping, and draw a picture without a mouse.

  3. US History by DogDude · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It has to do with history. Low Income people, minorities, and people who are the first of their families in college have historically had a very hard time getting ahead in the US. It's a fact. Sorry that upsets you so much, snowflake.

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    1. Re:US History by jpaine619 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You are a fucking LIAR.

      There are only 3 steps you need to have a 97% chance of ending up in the middle class.

      1. Graduate High School. (not college, just high school)
      2. Stay out of prison. (don't commit felonies)
      3. Don't have a child out of wedlock (use a rubber or learn to like blowjobs)

      That's it....

      You do those three things and the odds are very much in your favor that you'll do just fine in this country. Nobody out there is trying to "keep you down", asshole.
      Most people end up where they are because of the choices that they have made. When you make bad choices, you have to pay the piper... Well, unless you subscribe to the liberal mindset, in which case nothing is ever your fault..

      Do you all sit around all day imagining that rich people are gathered in dimly lit rooms, smoking cigars, and drinking single malt whiskey, while planning on how to keep poor people "in their place"?

      For fuck's sake...

      Yeah, those 3%, they'll do all the right stuff and luck or the system will shit on them, and that sucks... But most people will do just fine.