New York Times columnist David Brooks cites research led by Dr. Richard Allington on the positive effects of simply giving 12 self-selected books to 852 disadvantaged students to take home over the summer. They continued this project for 3 years in a row so the students built up a home library. Their reading scores improved significantly compared to other comparable students. That's the good news. The bad news comes from Stanford University's Sanford School of Public Policy where a study examined computer and Internet use of 5 million 5th to 8th grade students in North Carolina. The results there show that the spread of home computers and high-speed internet access between 2000 and 2005 was associated with significant declines in math and reading scores. What do you think of the issue that Brooks raises in his column "The Medium is the Medium?"
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