Looking back to 1996, it is encouraging that the educational, age and gender profile of the online population is approaching that of the U.S. More distressing is the lack of change in the income profile.
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It may become a petri dish for how to build an educational system in the Information Age.
Anti-selection groups will argue that the eleven-plus leads to most children being labelled as failures at an early age, thereby permanently damaging their educational progress.
In Kaufman, the taxpayer (Kaufman) was a graduate of MIT and Harvard who, quite predictably given his educational pedigree, retired in 1980 at the age of 46.
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg believes the website should be available to children under the current age limit because the site has "educational benefits".
Questioning Mr Barner, Italian centre right MEP Erminia Mazzoni said that using braille from an early age helped blind or visually impaired people with their educational development.
In an age where everything is reduced to bits and bytes, educational initiatives that demonstrate measurable markers of success are what matter.
Schooling should certainly not be about deciding who is worthy of a good education at the age of 11, and sending all the failures to the educational scrap heap.
While the views of panellists varied widely on the best ways to improve and enhance education, they all agreed that broadband could address educational challenges in a world where 61 million children of primary-school age are not in school, 1.7 million extra teachers are needed and 775 million people, mostly women, are illiterate.
From a very young age, radio can introduce children to infinite worlds that are both fun and educational.
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