uncanny parallels, revisited

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 19 14:46:51 PST 2000



>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:58:03 -0500
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Subject: email cures poverty
>
>More proof that computers can work miracles. Bill Clinton said this
>yesterday to a group of bigwigs collected by Jesse Jackson and his
>Wall Street Project at the Sheraton Towers Hotel in NYC:
>
>>I went to Hudson County, New Jersey, which has a lot of
>>first-generation immigrants, in a school that had so many problems it
>>was almost closed by the state. And then the principal of this high
>>school not only started making sure all the immigrant kids whose first
>>language was not English were trained on the computer, they started
>>putting computers in the parents' home and showing them how to do it --
>>so that all these low-income working people could e-mail their parents,
>>teachers, and their principals every day. The dropout rate went way
>>down and the performance of these kids in a low-income neighborhood,
>>most of them immigrant kids, rose above the state average of New Jersey.
>>
>>We can do this if we close the digital divide. (Applause.)

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Alexander Cockburn in New York Press, January 19-25, 2000:


>E-MAIL SOLVES POVERTY!
>
>Bill Clinton said as much last week to a group of bigwigs collected
>by Jesse Jackson and his Wall Street Project at the Sheraton Towers
>Hotel in NYC:
>
>"I went to Hudson County, New Jersey, which has a lot of
>first-generation immigrants, in a school that had so many problems
>it was almost closed by the state. And then the principal of this
>high school not only started making sure all the immigrant kids
>whose first language was not English were trained on the computer,
>they started putting computers in the parents' home and showing them
>how to do it -- so that all these low-income working people could
>e-mail their parents, teachers, and their principals every day. The
>dropout rate went way down and the performance of these kids in a
>low-income neighborhood, most of them immigrant kids, rose above the
>state average of New Jersey.
>
>We can do this if we close the digital divide." Applause.

Doug



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