Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

John Harrington, Funds for Learning Among the groups commenting on the issue, both ISTE and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) raised the possibility that digital education providers can pay to deliver their content more quickly, and wondered aloud if the move would deepen the digital divide.

E-rate 91

E-rate Broadband Digital Divide Libraries 91

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

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. Home broadband is increasingly a must-have for education. How can we get it to work for its intended purpose?”.

Broadband 87

Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 87

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

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.” A $21 million settlement paid by NEC in 2006 for price-fixing. As part of these modernization efforts , in 2015 the funding cap for E-rate was increased to $3.9

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49