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Digital divide still separates white and minority students in United States.
(From AP Worldstream)
Byline: BEN FELLER
Many more white schoolchildren use the Internet than Hispanic and black students in the United States, a reminder that going online is hardly a way of life for everyone.
Two of every three white students use the Internet, but fewer than half the blacks and Hispanics do, according to federal data released Tuesday. The specific numbers are 67 percent for whites, 44 percent for Hispanics and 47 percent for blacks.
"This creates incredible barriers for minorities," said Mark Lloyd, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and an expert on how communications influence civil rights.
Not using the Internet "narrows their ability to even think about the kind of work they can be doing," Lloyd said. "It doesn't prepare them for a world in which they're going to be expected to know how to do these things."
The new data come from the National Center for Education Statistics, an arm of the Education Department. It is based on a national representative survey of households in 2003.
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