Accessibility Advocacy Digital Divide Laptops 
eSchool News
JANUARY 19, 2024
This funding, which was crucial in bridging the digital divide, now stands at a crossroads, potentially leaving many educational institutions grappling with outdated technology and hindering access to the digital resources necessary for effective learning.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos’ parents promised to buy her a laptop eventually, but bills mounted and it wasn’t in the family’s budget.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2020
His schools have been scrambling to set up online learning, connect students with virtual counseling and get laptops into the hands of families — steps McKneely says will be invaluable if another hurricane disrupts education. “We The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 23, 2019
And Marwell wants all of them to experience the types of teaching and learning high-speed internet access facilitates. We believed if we had connectivity in every classroom, that would give every teacher the opportunity to take advantage of digital learning.”. And he remembers battery life on those laptops lasting just an hour.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 22, 2020
School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. With everything shut down, the chronic issue of home internet access became an immense and acute challenge.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 8, 2020
Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. Especially in states like Arizona, where families have little access to mental health care, students often turn to school counseling to triage their personal crises.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 21, 2017
— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything.
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