Quickening pace of technology widens the digital divide
Excerpt from the Chicago Tribune, Jan. 25, 2012
With contributions from Jessica Tobacman
"Bronzeville got a boost this year when Best Practice High School, which is closing, donated a roomful of the West Side school's computers. But Bronzeville Scholastic's principal, Latunja Williams, says it will take at least $3,000 to update the hard drives, which are too slow to run many current programs.
Two years ago, school librarian Sara Sayigh received a $15,000 grant that paid for many of the computers in the shared homework lab. The rest, however, can be unreliable and can't be easily fixed when something goes wrong." (read more)
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