This study finds that students with computers at home have higher test scores in mathematics and reading, even after controlling for family income, and for cultural and social capital. However, children from high socio-economic status homes show larger educational gains with home computers than do lower SES children. Boys' performance advantage is larger than girls'.
Ethnic minorities show far less of a performance boost than whites.
These emergencies draw upon the help of international agencies, and make new demands upon national governments to provide systematic data about their natural resources, populations, and health conditions which has never been collected, which has been collected is not in a usable form, or which the governments are reluctant to share with outside agencies. Through a case study of the online Chinese language publications, they examine the potentials of such publications in supplementing and expanding the functions of the traditional ethnic media, strengthening cultural and communal ties of the ethnic groups, and mobilizing them for action. They argue that on-line media enable ethnic media to fortifying the cultural traits of ethnic immigrants. As a result, ethnic groups are more likely to be assimilated into the mainstream culture without losing their own cultural roots and ethnic identity. The emergence of the global service economy has altered the flows of information and capital among the world's nations.