The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

According to a 2021 report from the think tank New America, 1 in 8 children from low-income families don’t have a computer at home, while 1 in 7 lack access to broadband internet. It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Common Sense Kids Action, the advocacy arm of Common Sense Media, and SETDA will work together this year and in 2016 and 2017 to encourage digital leaders to file applications for E-rate program funding. Common Sense Kids Action and SETDA will collaborate to help connect every U.S.

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E-rate Broadband Libraries Advocacy 40

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. Donna Wright has served nearly 40 years as a career educator.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 83

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

One of the first challenges rural districts face is broadband access. Now, they are employing creative methods, such as expanding the reach of the school’s broadband so students can do work from the parking lot or in the surrounding area, having off-duty patrol cars become hotspots across the district.

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BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

It also allows her to teach students who arrive in her classroom with vastly different skill levels. Seventy-five different languages are spoken in the schools, and many of the refugees who populate classrooms haven’t been formally educated in years. “I I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. Greeley, Colo.,

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. “Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” Edutechnica wrote in June , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing “pseudo-LMSes.”

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

Casagranda said in one classroom at Seward High School there’s a “huge leak in the ceiling panel.” In 2014, the U.S. Oil prices dropped in 2014, plunging Alaska into a financial crisis and shrinking state funding for school capital projects from an average of $300 million per year to $124 million.

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Report System Broadband Study 101