2019 Accessibility Digital Divide Elementary 
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
households lack what has become a basic need, according to a new report by EducationSuperHighway, an education nonprofit that in 2019 helped to almost eliminate the internet connectivity gap in classrooms across the country. The post The affordability gap is the biggest part of the digital divide appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms. Thu, 11/07/2019 - 15:06. We have a divide, whether it’s a socioeconomic divide or an opportunity divide. It’s a digital divide too. Our elementary schools are almost one-to-one, with a 1-to-2 ratio of devices to students.
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Insight Education Group
MAY 27, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. billion to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief Fund, also known as ESSER ( NCSL, 2021 ). and 31%, respectively” ( CDC, 2020 ).
Insight Education Group
MAY 27, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. billion to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief Fund, also known as ESSER ( NCSL, 2021 ). and 31%, respectively” ( CDC, 2020 ).
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 19, 2021
Schools’ struggles to engage English learners’ families during the pandemic partly stem from another pre-pandemic inequity — gaps in access to digital learning devices and the internet. For English learners, the pandemic is both a crisis and a revelation. By and large, English learners aren’t thriving under distance learning.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 18, 2021
Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. For example, a 2019 study found that social media use doesn’t harm adolescent well-being.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 17, 2021
JumpStart provided a pipeline to NOVA as more than a third of students enrolled in the fall (while community college enrollment fell by around 10% at the start of the school year compared with 2019, NOVA enrollment increased by 2%). The program also bolstered access to learning opportunities at times limited by availability and affordability.
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