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Simple Assessment Highlights the Importance of BEAD Challenge Process to Affordable MDUs

Education Superhighway

EducationSuperHighway conducted a desktop assessment in Colorado that highlighted the importance of states following NTIA’s guidance to go beyond the FCC National Broadband Map to determine the connectivity status of MDUs that could benefit from Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) funding.

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OPINION: College in a pandemic is tough enough — without reliable broadband access, it’s nearly impossible

The Hechinger Report

Sadly, though, the reality is that millions of Americans — in rural and urban areas alike, and including many underrepresented minorities — lack the reliable broadband connections needed to access postsecondary and K-12 education in a nation that remains in partial lockdown. Some solutions have been proposed.

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EducationSuperHighway Attends Alaska Telephone Association 2018 Annual Meeting

Education Superhighway

In Alaska, where we recently announced a partnership with Governor Bill Walker to address statewide school connectivity, the challenges that rural Alaska communities typically face in getting scalable broadband infrastructure are especially acute. How Have Other Communities Secured Broadband Access?

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Fiber or Cable? Making the Switch to Scalable High-Speed Connections

Education Superhighway

Though the amount of bandwidth each district needs depends, among other factors, on its size and location, every district can benefit from planning broadband infrastructure with growing technology demands in mind. Today’s classrooms also need sufficient broadband to support activities such as: Online research and browsing.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

Reliable display solutions will play a key role whether it is providing big, bright images for students in a socially distant classroom or collaborative whiteboard tools for students to participate remotely. GHz frequency of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band. temperature, lighting). Zoom Meeting hacks, ransomware). –

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New plan advocates gigabit broadband’s arrival in schools

eSchool News

Connecting our nation’s schools, libraries, health clinics and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) to next generation high-speed broadband is an important national priority. The SHLB Action Plan gives policy makers a road map for designing a broadband strategy that promotes education, health care and community enrichment.”.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls. So, rather than wait for reluctant commercial internet providers to expand their reach, the district is trying an audacious solution. They’re building their own countywide broadband network.