• Computer and Internet Use by People with Disabilities
  H. Stephen Kaye, Ph.D.
  2003, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U. S. Department of Education
• The Digital Disconnect: The Widening Gap Between Internet Savvy Students and Their Schools
  December 2002, National Center for Technology Innovation
• The Digital Divide's New Frontier
  2000, The Children’s Partnership
• Digital Leadership Divide: Without Visionary Leadership, Disparities in School Technology Budgets Increase
  Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
• Disability and the Digital Divide
  Stephen Kaye
  July 2000, University of California, San Francisco
• The Growing Digital Divide in Access for People with Disabilities
  Cynthia D. Waddell, J.D.
  May 1999, International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet
• Making Educational Software and Web Sites Accessible: Design Guidelines Including Math and Science Solutions
  National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
• Multi-Sensory Manipulatives in Mathematics: Linking the Abstract to the Concrete
  Judith L. Bellonio
  Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
• Program Aids Urban Poor in Accessing the Internet
  Jonathan Krim
  August 2004, The Washington Post
• The Research Basis for the Literacy Center, an Interactive Multisensory Early Literacy Curriculum
  Leap Frog School House
• Resources for Assisting Struggling Learners
  September 2000, New Brunswick Department of Education
• Technology Trends: Delivering on the Promise
  Web-based Education Commission
• Toward Equality of Access: The Role of Public Libraries in Addressing the Digital Divide
  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Using Partnerships to Bridge the Digital Divide within the Disability Community
  Taylor Kearns
  International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet
• Who’s Surfing? Internet Access and Computer Use by Visually Impaired Youth and Adults
  Elaine Gerber and Corinne Kirchner
  American Foundation for the Blind

Web Sites

• CoSN's Accessible Technologies for All Students Webcasts are 60-minute interactive presentations conducted over the Internet. This professional development series is designed for school district and state leaders, offering guidance on key challenges and opportunities in education technology.
• Curriculum Design Resource for Technology Integration provides a template for curriculum design based on the GMOTT principles: use of multiple learning strategies and careful attention to standards, assessment, and accessibility. (Click on "Resources," then "Designing for Technology Integration.")
• The Digital Divide: A Resource List offers a variety of web-based articles and conferences for readings related to the digital divide.   
• Digital Divide Network is a resource for bridging the digital divide. DDN builds your own online communities through tools to publish a blog, share documents and discussions with colleagues, and announce news and events.
• Equity (The Center for the Study of Technology and Society) aims to ensure that no one is excluded from the benefits of technological progress—either at home or abroad.
• Forrester Research: An Independent Research Firm has conducted research on minorities and computer access.
• Institute for Higher Education Policy’s mission is to foster access and success in postsecondary education through public policy research and activities that include seminars, meetings, and capacity building activities such as strategic planning.
• The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) is the research and engineering laboratory of the NTIA. ITS provides technical support to NTIA in advancing telecommunications and information infrastructure development, enhancing domestic competition, improving U.S. telecommunications trade opportunities, and promoting more efficient and effective use of the radio spectrum.
• National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility dedicated to the issues of media and information technology for people with disabilities.  NCAM explores how existing access technologies may benefit other populations and provides access to educational and media technologies for special needs students.
• PBS Digital Divide's National Outreach Campaign publishes the Digital Divide series, which is implementing a national outreach campaign around the television broadcast designed to raise awareness about access to computers, software and Internet content, and model programs.
• Web-based Education Commission was established by Congress to develop specific policy recommendations geared toward maximizing the educational promise of the Internet for pre-K, elementary, middle, secondary, and postsecondary education learners. Its overarching goal is to establish a “policy roadmap” that will help education and policy officials at the local, state, and national levels better address the critical “digital age” challenges brought about by the Internet and other emerging technologies.