One of the goals of American education officials is to have all public schools connected to the Internet computer system and have computers for all students. Government studies show that in 1994 only thirty-five percent of American public schools were connected to the Internet. Last year, that number reached eighty-nine percent.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute adn State University is a large university in the southern state of Virginia. Officials at Virginia Tech say computers are very important to a student's education.
All students at Virginia Tech have been required to have a computer since 1998.
