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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”. But a few pioneering districts have shown that it’s possible, and Albemarle County has joined a nascent trend of districts trying to build their own bridges across the digital divide.

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Will a new batch of licenses help rural students get online?

The Hechinger Report

Federal licenses to use spectrum that can carry mobile internet are a hot commodity, coveted by big telecommunications companies with money to spend at the periodic spectrum auctions conducted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Tom Rolfes, education IT manager for the Nebraska Information Technology Commission.

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A hidden, public internet asset that could get more kids online for learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2004, President George W. A 2015 Pew Research Center report revealed that the disconnected included 5 million households with school-aged children, who either couldn’t afford home broadband or lived in rural areas avoided by for-profit internet companies. Bush called for universal broadband access in America by 2007.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

As an op-ed in The Washington Post put it , “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” million settlement paid by Inter-Tel in 2004 over accusations of rigging the bidding process. ” Among them: an $8.71

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