Micro haves & have-nots: a look at two schools

Author(s): Barbara Wierzbicki
Publication: Infoworld
Pub Details: Volume 5, Issue 44
Date: October 31, 1983
Pages: 36, 38

Looks at Watkinson School in affluent West Hartford, CT, vs James T. Timilty School in Roxbury, MA. Watkinson spent $100,000 to implement its computer-education program, compared to Timilty’s $2500. Timilty School has 18 T/S 1000s, shared by 440 students, in the “Sinclair room” where math teacher Judy Fields teaches computer literacy and programming to sixth through eighth graders.