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Celano, Donna; Neuman, Susan B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
Many low-income children do not have the opportunity to develop the computer skills necessary to succeed in our technological economy. Their only access to computers and the Internet--school, afterschool programs, and community organizations--is woefully inadequate. Educators must work to close this knowledge gap and to ensure that low-income…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Access to Computers, After School Programs, Low Income Groups
Celano, Donna; Neuman, Susan B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2008
In a study conducted by the authors regarding children's use of library books and computers during the summer, the authors found that children in low-income and middle-income neighborhoods use such resources differently. Although the authors found that both sets of children used public libraries heavily, wealthier children were exposed to more…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Low Income, Computer Uses in Education, Computers
Neuman, Susan B.; Celano, Donna – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
This study examines children's uses of reading resources in neighborhood public libraries that have been transformed to "level the playing field." Through foundation funding (US$20 million), the public library system of Philadelphia converted neighborhood branch libraries into a technologized modern urban library system, hoping to…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Neighborhoods, Library Networks, Public Libraries