Advocacy Broadband Digital Learning Education 
The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 24, 2017
Today Daisy Dyer Duerr @DaisyDyerDuerr reimagines what rural education can be. Rural education has a significant majority of perpetually impoverished counties in America. Additionally, only 55% of rural America has broadband access versus 94% of urban America. This digital divide and poverty create unique challenges.
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Teachers and students are well on their way to fulfilling the mission of seeing 99 percent of all schools connected to next-generation broadband, according to the “2018 State of States Report” from EducationSuperHighway. million students and 1,356 schools lack basic infrastructure needed for digital learning, according to the report. .
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Edsurge
APRIL 12, 2019
Proponents of digital learning, as well as those committed to closing the nation's “homework gap,” rejoiced on Thursday when the U.S. Senate introduced a bill that would invest hundreds of millions of dollars to expand broadband access in communities that currently lack it. The same holds for U.S. Patty Murray (D-Wash.),
Edsurge
APRIL 4, 2019
After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. The education community could have seen this coming. can access digital learning in their classrooms (with 2 million to go). We’re almost to the end.”
Education Superhighway
JUNE 26, 2020
Earlier this year, we selected Connected Nation and Funds For Learning as partners to carry forward our mission of upgrading the broadband in America’s K-12 schools. She will lead the launch of the initiative later this year as part of our partnership with Connected Nation and Funds For Learning.
eSchool News
MARCH 16, 2018
A federal report on students’ home access to digital learning resources is months late, and ed-tech groups say the delay is impeding efforts to close the homework gap. “We think there’s a big problem, and we need good data around it,” says CoSN CEO Keith Krueger. “This is critical.”
eSchool News
APRIL 7, 2016
A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. The report highlights the pivotal role state leaders and policymakers play in helping districts and schools implement high-speed broadband and wi-fi in schools. K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity.
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