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.

Digital Divide 113

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 113

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

There is still a digital divide in classrooms based on what technology is being used and how. When EducationSuperHighway launched, the Perry-Lecompton school district, in a rural area outside of Topeka, Kansas, still had laptop carts that teachers had to reserve if they wanted students to use computers in their classrooms.

E-rate 51

E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 51

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. Inequity looms large. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well.

Learning 71

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 71

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Besides being away from counselors, kids are also out of sight of their teachers and peers, two groups that often help counselors identify who might need their help. 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.

Survey 145

Survey Report Elementary Exercises 145

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.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. Um, they do.) WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145