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The Nooitgedacht Primary School, on the outskirts of Cape Town, is little more than a few drab buildings surrounded by barbed wire. The school can’t afford a library, and only a few students have the money to buy uniforms. But up two flights of stairs in room No. 6, a class of fifth graders sits hunched over 20 computer terminals, writing with word-processor programs, experimenting with spreadsheets and familiarizing themselves with the mouse and keyboard....