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December 4, 2013 05:22 pm GMT

Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates Put $9M Into EducationSuperHighway To Improve School Broadband

school computersThe digital divide between those who have Internet access and those who do not is often described as an economic or geographical issue, but there is another divide that actually runs across both of those other segmentations: education. Currently, some 72% of schools in the U.S. have out of date, slow, or no Internet connections. And that impacts how students at those schools are able to take advantage of some of the newer, web-based developments in learning, as well as a crucial aspect of technical education in the form of computer literacy.

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