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A colleague sent me a story by Cecilia Kang in the Washington Post: Survey finds gap in Internet access between rich, poor students<\/a>. With my interest in programs to get connected computers into low income households, my friend knew I would be interested in the article which talks about a survey released Thursday<\/a> by the Pew Research Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, I would commend the Washington Post article and the survey itself to you for reading.<\/p>\n

I want to highlight the problem representing the survey results in the Washington Post. The fifth paragraph says:<\/p>\n

Half of all students in higher income families have access to the Internet at home through a computer or mobile device. The figure drops to 20 percent for middle income children and just 3 percent of students from poor homes, according to the survey of 2,462 teachers by the\u00a0Pew Internet & American Life Project<\/a>\u00a0in cooperation with the College Board and National Writing Project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Something seemed off with those figures.<\/p>\n

After all, I recalled that two weeks ago, I wrote about digital literacy programs<\/a> trying to deal with the one-third of American households that aren’t on-line. How could it be that half of wealthy households with kids were without internet, if the national figures show two-thirds of households have internet access.<\/p>\n

Something wasn’t right.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In going to the actual Pew report, I found the likely source<\/a> of the Washington Post numbers. But Pew didn’t actually report on the availability of home internet by income. It was a different question.<\/p>\n

The survey reported “% of teachers who say ALL or ALMOST ALL of their students have sufficient access to the digital tools they need [at home \/ at school] to effectively complete school assignments, by student socioeconomic status”.<\/p>\n

This question may point to whether teachers have to adapt homework assignments; can the teachers assume that digital tools will be available?<\/p>\n

The Washington Post appears to have treated these numbers as though the question asked “percentage of students who have home internet, by income.”<\/p>\n

The Washington Post question is important to understand and address, but it was not addressed in the survey. And as a result, the numbers were just plain wrong.<\/p>\n

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[2:25pm update] The Washington Post article has been corrected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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