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A 4 page discussion of the importance of the provisions of the Universal Service Fund (the program more commonly called the E-rate program) to achieving digital equality. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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tools and technology that facilitate learning is a very real issue in education. Digital information and the telecommunications technologies that drive it are among the more critical of those
tools and technologies. American students, however, are anything but equal in terms of their access to digital information. The result is what is termed a digital divide, a
great chasm that separates those with access from those without that access. Numerous provisions have been made in an attempt to establish digital equality but those attempts, to date,
have been largely unsuccessful. Digital inequality can be categorized among the many other factors that present uneven footing for some students
in comparison to others. Socioeconomic status, physical disability, language problems, and factors such as race and gender, for whatever reasons, are factors that have proven to be resistant to
efforts to intercede to establish learning. Digital equality, in contrast, should be relatively easy to achieve. Appearances, however, can often be misleading. Such is the case when
digital equality is the focus. Even the most admirable attempts at addressing this problem have fell short of reaching the goal.
Consider, for example, the Universal Service Fund (the program more commonly called the E-rate program). The E-rate program was designed to meet the requirement of the Telecommunications Act
of 1996 to provide elementary and secondary schools discounts for Internet access (Salvador, 1997). Fees for access would be discounted between twenty and ninety percent, an amount determined in
relation to the number of students in a particular school receiving free or subsidized school meals (Salvador, 1997). Describing the program at its point of initiation, Salvador (1997) obviously
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