FYI - This was posted to our department this morning.
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Hi everyone. The Dept of Education has just released its latest survey
of schools connected to the Internet. You can see the brief online at
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs99/1999017.html><color><param>0000,0000,FFFF
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs99/1999017.html
According to the survey, 89 percent of US schools
had some kind of connection to the Internet in 1998, up from 78% in 1997. This
number may be a little misleading because they don't qualify how or where that
Internet connection occurs - in other words, a single modem in the principal's
office would count the school as having a connection. A
more telling statistic is the percentage of instructional classrooms that
now have internet access: 51 percent, nearly double the 27% of classrooms
that were connected in 1997, and _17_ times the number of classroom that
were connected in 1994.
(see the following chart:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs99/99017t1
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http://www.enter.missouri.edu
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