2018 Broadband Chromebook Digital Divide 
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 11, 2018
Caine oversees the school’s Chromebooks. And yet, reliable broadband is far from guaranteed in this region of towering plateaus, sagebrush valleys and steep canyons. According to an April 2018 Department of Education report, 18 percent of 5- to 17-year old students in “remote rural” districts have no broadband access at home.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 15, 2020
Waterford.org also provides families with laptops and internet service, helping reduce the digital divide that would have prevented many low-income kids from logging on. Almost a third of all homes in the county lack broadband access. Waterford.org will direct $9 million toward the project.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2020
The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. In the 2018 school year, roughly one in every five California school children missed at least one day because of a natural disaster, school maintenance issue, shooting or other emergency, according to an analysis by CalMatters.
MindShift
JULY 31, 2020
The newsletter keeps families informed of upcoming digital events and services, and keeps kids reading and learning with “play date at home” ideas, links to other online happenings for kids, and of course, curated book lists in several languages. Families can pick up a Chromebook and hot spot from the library.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 21, 2017
Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.
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