eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

May 4, 2021 – Kajeet ®, a leading provider of wireless connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver safe, reliable and controlled internet connectivity to enterprises, state and local governments, students and IoT solution providers, today announced the official launch of its 2021 Digital Inclusion Grant program.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

12, 2021, filings of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as FAFSA, were still down a whopping 9.4 percent from a year ago, which does not bode well for college going in the fall of 2021. Gurantz’s study was published in Educational Researcher in February 2021. But as of Feb. But no, it does not look good.”.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2021

Broadband access and the ever-growing equity gap are among K-12 IT leaders’ top concerns, according to CoSN’s annual IT Leadership Survey. Efforts to expand broadband access outside of school have increased dramatically.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The 2021 E-rate Trends Report , from E-rate compliance services firm Funds For Learning , arrives as school systems work through COVID-related impacts, including the Homework Gap and on- and off-campus broadband needs. Key 2021 report findings include: 1.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Broadband access and the ever-growing equity gap are among K-12 IT leaders’ top concerns, according to CoSN’s annual IT Leadership Survey. Efforts to expand broadband access outside of school have increased dramatically.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The key takeaways from this study are relevant beyond the context of Puerto Rico as well: Teachers need to have a stable environment–namely, broadband and device access–to use technology effectively in their classroom practice.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

A health crisis running headlong into an education crisis: Welcome to the 2020-2021 school year. In some estimates, students could lose up to nine months of learning by the end of June 2021. Even with a device, data indicated some 39 percent of our students lacked reliable (or any) broadband service in their homes.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

Since then, the program has transformed to help schools and libraries connect to high-speed broadband. Today, nearly three-quarters of K-12 school districts provide internet bandwidth at a minimum rate of 1 megabit per second, according to the 2023 Report on School Connectivity.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2021

Although progress to bridge the divide has been significant, as many as 12 million K-12 students remained digitally underserved just before 2021, according to a report by Common Sense, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and the Southern Education Foundation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2022

2021 was a year of tremendous challenges, but there were also incredible strides made in the world of wireless technology that have changed the way we live, work, and play–all for the better. As technology evolves, there’s always plenty to be excited about. But there are encouraging signs that this will be changing.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A recent analysis of federal government data by Jeff Seaman of Bayview Analytics shows that enrollment in on-campus courses fell nearly 11 percent in the past decade and almost 30 percent from 2020 to 2021. or in disadvantaged countries abroad that lack robust broadband options depend on mobile devices to participate online.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2020

Most of the new rules will not go into effect until 2021. Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2020

Most of the new rules will not go into effect until 2021. Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Most of the new rules will not go into effect until 2021. Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Most of the new rules will not go into effect until 2021. Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Most of these households, he said, “have infrastructure available at their home but they just can’t afford to sign up for a broadband service.” Only a third of those without broadband access blame a lack of infrastructure; the remaining two thirds without access say they can’t afford it, Marwell said.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

New America published a report in June that shows while we’ve made substantial progress—among families with children ages 6 to 13, access to non-dial-up home internet service has increased from 64 percent in 2015 to 84 percent in 2021—we still have work to do.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

E-rate provides 20 to 90 percent discounts for telecommunications, telecommunications services, internet access, internal connections, and managed internal broadband services. The cap for funding year 2021 was $4.276 billion. No one should fall behind because of lack of funding.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2023

Reality check: A 2021 report from Common Sense Media found that 15 to 16 million K-12 public school students in the U.S. We realized that these markets were being poorly underserved, and for a lot of different reasons—for instance, it’s incredibly difficult to run broadband out to locations in the middle of nowhere.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Presented to the legislature in May 2020, the plan aimed to make education more equitable by closing gaps in device ownership and broadband coverage across the state. “We Data will be collected through fall 2021 with another data collection planned for spring 2022. We really did feel that this was an equity issue,” said Wright.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

billion in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan in April 2021 to enable school districts and libraries to provide internet access and connected devices to students and educators during the pandemic. million broadband connections, according to the FCC. The homework gap could worsen for millions of U.S. The program received $7.17

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2021

Attendees won’t have to make such fraught choices at the annual Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition conference in Arlington, Va.—scheduled Attendance usually tops out at about 350 people—though membership has spiked, along with broadband subsidies, during the pandemic.) “Our scheduled for Oct.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

A lack of access to digital devices and home broadband access, distractions in learning from home, technical glitches, and unfamiliarity with online teaching and learning best practices are just some of the factors that made remote learning less effective than in-person instruction, especially for students in under-resourced communities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Schools across the country were forced to rapidly shift to distance learning last spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as the 2020-2021 school year began in the fall and teachers and students were still trying to adjust to this “new normal,” those in the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program had an advantage.

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Edthena

MARCH 26, 2021

Is it students of color, students with disabilities, students experiencing homelessness, students without broadband access at home or the devices? “The voice of those most impacted needs to be at the decision-making tables. Is it the paraprofessionals, is it the bus drivers, the school secretaries?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

public school students in grades 3-8 between fall 2020 and spring 2021 and found: On average, students across most grades and subject areas made learning gains in 2020-21, but at a lower rate compared to pre-pandemic trends. The research examined MAP Growth assessment scores from 5.5 million U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

These new amendments require the State Superintendent to survey education institutions to understand students' access to computing devices and broadband connections. The FCC’s E-Rate program , a K-12 broadband subsidy, provides methods for districts and libraries to acquire discounts on WiFi connectivity.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

between 2021 and 2026. This became a significant concern at secondary school level during the coronavirus pandemic, where poorer students were thought to struggle with remote learning due in part to inadequate broadband or a lack of access to devices. The Use of Augmented Reality in Teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

An initial report , which is still being finalized, states that “lack of broadband access in Ector County is a crisis.” The study highlights some of the challenges communities like Ector County face in bringing broadband access to all residents. The solution that would provide the best service is the use of fiber optic cables.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

What is alarming for advocates and policy-makers, is that even for families that do have broadband internet access at home, the survey found that most are “ under-connected ,” or lacking devices or service that are sufficient and reliable enough for remote learning. An additional $7.17

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — May 5, 2021 — To celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week, Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, has partnered with EveryoneOn.org to honor teachers by helping close the digital divide for students from low-income families. According to the Pew Research Center, 15% of U.S.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 4, 2021

This framework includes approximately $65 billion in broadband funding but it remains unclear how those funds will be disseminated—to states directly, via a federal government grant process—and how they will be spent. If any of the $7.17

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 1, 2020

Given the disruptions caused by the pandemic, the FCC Order: Waives the service implementation deadline for special construction for all funding year 2019 applicants and extends this deadline by one year, from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2021. Under Commission rules, applicants must complete special construction (e.g.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2021

Our third Library 2.021 mini-conference: " Libraries as Community Anchors ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, October 21st, 2021. In 1998, he created the Community TeleStructure Initiative, a national consortium advocating local community leadership responsibility for telecom/ broadband infrastructure planning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2021

Our third Library 2.021 mini-conference: " Libraries as Community Anchors ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, October 21st, 2021. In 1998, he created the Community TeleStructure Initiative, a national consortium advocating local community leadership responsibility for telecom/ broadband infrastructure planning.

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