The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

Broadband 90

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 90

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Shawn Caine, who teaches technology at Panguitch High School in Garfield County, Utah, lets students who don’t have adequate home internet service get online in her classroom before and after school. Tom Rolfes, education IT manager for the Nebraska Information Technology Commission. Photo: Chris Berdik.

Broadband 82

Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Mobility 82

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Yet, the fact remains that too many students still scrounge for the vital internet access their classmates (and technology-enamored school reformers) take for granted. In 2004, President George W. Jim” Snider, founder of iSolon.org, a nonprofit promoting technology for democratic reform, it starts with ignorance of spectrum itself.

Broadband 87

Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 87

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The FCC plays a particularly important role in regulating the telecommunications industry, and as such, it has provided oversight for the various technologies long touted as “revolutionizing” education – radio, television , the Internet.

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49