Digital divide: How do home internet access and parental support affect student outcomes?

Education Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-53

  Lei, Jing ^a   Zhou, Jingye ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Home and school; Internet access; Student outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870667150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22277102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/educ2010045     Document Type: Article

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