2020 Broadband Digital Divide Online Learning 
Edsurge
JANUARY 27, 2021
In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. As of December 2020, the number of students impacted by the digital divide has narrowed to 12 million.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 25, 2021
As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. OAKLAND, Calif.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 8, 2020
The Class of 2020 is graduating from a distance. That means we must prepare now for the potential that colleges and universities that swiftly shifted to online instruction as the pandemic swept through the country and forced campuses to shutter will have to continue, and even ramp up, those efforts in September. Schools get creative.
Edsurge
JUNE 11, 2021
They just weren’t ready for distance learning, and a big part of that was that too many students lacked adequate WiFi access to get to virtual class. Cases like 2020’s Cayla J. Then, there are states that lacked laws prior to 2020, but began responding to the at-home learning requirement with new legislation for future needs.
Education Superhighway
MAY 24, 2022
In our work to close the broadband affordability gap for the 18 million U.S. Local leaders can make an immediate impact on the digital divide in their community by launching an Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) awareness campaign. Raising Awareness of the Affordable Connectivity Program.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 27, 2020
Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. Students with the internet at home could access online learning activities offered by the district or participate in virtual classrooms, while packets were provided for children without the ability to log on. The digital divide. Credit: Terri Johnson.
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