Under it, schools and libraries receive discounts of up to 90 percent on telecommunications services and Internet access. But E-rate still doesn't bring the Internet into the homes of the nation's poor. A new report issued by The College Board concludes that information technologies may deepen the divide between educational haves and have-nots. Like that gulf between my high school and the rest in Washington, D.C., we can't take for granted that Internet access for all will just happen. We have to make it happen.
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