Currently, Congress is entertaining no less than 4 competing proposals that are seeking to reorganize how the Federal Government spends money on America's K-12 schools. A recent study has shown that the majority of school-age children in the US today can't imagine what life was like before the Internet. Simmons Market Research Board says that school-age children are significantly pushing trends in the Internet and media sectors. American children consume more media than their counterparts around the world. Children with Internet access watch more TV than those without access and are also more likely to go to the movies or read magazines.
Online kids are also more involved in sports activities.
The children of the Internet generation are expected to be high achievers, with 80 percent of those online hoping to go to college. Internet Illiterate' A report has found that a whole generation of Americans could become 'Internet illiterate' in the future due to a lack of knowledge of or access to the Internet. The report also found that three digital divides exist-access to the Internet, an experience gap, and a third divide based on speed of access to the Internet. An experience gap is the divide between those people who know how to benefit from the Internet and those who lack the knowledge to gain advantage from the power of the Web. Over 100 of the new computers are Macintosh iBooks.