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Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, NCES 2000-102. 
Among several findings, this report reported barriers reported by teachers that 
prevented them from optimal use of technology.  In 1999, those barriers most 
frequently reported to be great barriers to their use of computers or the Internet 
for instruction were not enough computers and lack of release time to learn how 
to use computers or the Internet.  Secondary teachers, teachers in large schools, 
and teachers in city schools were more likely than elementary teachers, teachers 
in small schools, and teachers in rural schools to report that not enough 
computers was as great barrier.  Additionally, teachers in schools with more than
50 percent minority enrollments were more likely to cite outdated, incompatible, 
or unreliable computers as a great barrier than teachers in schools with less than
6 percent minority students.


The Childrens Partnership (2001).  Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved
Americans:  The Digital Divides New Frontier, A Strategic Audit of Activities and
Opportunities. Retrieved October 14, 2001 from the World Wide Web:
http://www.childrenspartnership.org/pub/low_income/index.html.

This audit focused on four significant content barriers that affect large 
numbers of Americans.  They are (1) lack of local information about their 
community; (2) literacy barriersthe vast majority of information on the 
Internet is written for an audience that reads at an average or advanced literacy 
level; (3) language barrierswhile 87 percent of documents on the Internet are 
in English, at least 32 million Americans speak a language other than English as




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their primary language; and (4) lack of cultural diversity.  Several strategies are 
offered to address these barriers.


U.S. Department of Education (1996, June).  Getting Americas Students Ready for the
21st Century, Meeting the Technology Literacy Challenge:  A Report to the Nation on
Technology and Education. Retrieved October11, 2001 from the World Wide Web:
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Plan/NatTechPlan/


	

	
		
			
				
					
						




						
							
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