Liberty
Snapshot of the day: 7% of Americans don’t use the internet
Pew researchers conclude that over 20 years, the percentage of U.S. adults who don’t use the internet has plummeted from 48% to just 7%.
Digital divide
Education
Warning about an online learning ‘crisis’
John Loftus writes at National Review Online about the impact of the COVID-inspired shift to online education. Across the country, school districts have closed classrooms once again, due to another…
Research Brief
Education
Slapdash schooling and lackadaisical learning
During the last week in March, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) conducted a survey to measure the state’s migration to remote learning, that is, the use of…
Education
Don’t use CARES Act fund to buy computers
The Southern Coalition for Social Justice and allied groups want the state to use millions in federal coronavirus relief funds to buy computers for disadvantaged students. The News & Observer…
Research Brief
Health Care
Managing health privacy and bias in COVID-19 public surveillance
Most Americans are currently under a stay-at-home order to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. But in a matter of days and weeks, some U.S. governors will…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
“What Do the [Tech] Oligarchs Have in Mind for Us?”
Nothing good, according to Joel Kotkin! In a recent piece at Quillette, he writes: The rulers of the Valley and its Puget Sound doppelganger now account for eight of the…
Liberty
Don’t close the digital divide just yet
Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor say computers in the home are bad for learning. We use administrative data on North Carolina public school students to corroborate earlier surveys that document…
Liberty
Where too much of our money goes
Believe it or not, ACORN is asking for $6 million more in government money. That’s not really a surprise. They didn’t get millions and millions of taxpayer money over the…
Liberty
Cyberbridges to nowhere
Whether local or federal, the money can easily be wasted, no matter what the corporate shills say. A third of adults without Internet access, don’t want it.
Liberty
McCain and the digital divide
John McCain’s disinterest in the Internet continues to attract national media attention this week, this time from TIME columnist Lev Grossman. One real downside of McCain’s refusal to surf the…
Liberty
Ain’t got nothing on Winston-Salem
Forget Greensboro making Popular Science’s list of Top 50 Green Cities. Winston-Salem made the Community Forum’s list of Top 7 Intelligent Communities. It looks to me like cities pay ICF…
Liberty
It's Official: Bama is Third World
Stupid idea of a the week comes from officials in Birmingham, Alabama looking to land $200 laptops intended for places like Peru and Mongolia. This is likely the last thing…