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The Digital Divide Has Narrowed, But 12 Million Students Are Still Disconnected

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K-12 students lacked access to a working device, reliable high-speed internet or both. 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. Money is an issue.

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Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up

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In a new analysis , it finds that 47 percent of U.S. Connected Nation bases the analysis in its “Connect K-12 2020 Executive Summary” on FCC E-Rate application data for the 2020 federal fiscal year. On the home front, three organizations have released a “guidebook” to help schools and states close the internet access and device gap.

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OPINION: The biggest danger to U.S. higher education? Losing 20 years’ worth of gains in access for first-generation and minority students

The Hechinger Report

The biggest danger that higher education faces as a sector, though, is the loss of gains that we have made over the past 20 years in access to a college education — with all of the accompanying benefits to individuals and our entire society — for first-generation and minority students. This story about access to U.S.

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Report: One of the Biggest Obstacles to Remote Learning? Finding a Quiet Place to Work

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The data was then sent to Baker’s team at UPenn for analysis. Uneven access to devices makes getting assignments a challenge. About 1 in 5 students said it is “sometimes” or “never” easy to access assignments and classwork remotely. Having the technology necessary to access online learning opportunities isn’t enough.

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Students Size Up Edtech’s Dark Side

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Read part 1 , part 2 (about audio) , part 3 (about video) , and part 4 (about mobile tech in education). When students in my graduate seminar on education technology were given the chance to select a topic for a class session, they wanted to devote time to the digital world’s dark side. This is part 5.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

It will provide more support for students who are struggling in the online environment, it will take some of the burden off of the teachers, and it will help schools support educational equity by creating greater access to services that previously were only available to families that could afford it. –

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. Without access to quality healthcare,” she said, “entire rural communities can be lost to this pandemic and other diseases.”. ‘We This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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