The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

But instead of a deadly hurricane, this year brought another crisis that shut the city’s school system: the coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps no school system had a distance learning plan in place that anticipated a shutdown on the scale of the coronavirus closures. This story also appeared in The Huffington Post.

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Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 115

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Add concepts like blended and flipped learning to the equation and you come up with yet another to-do list item: Make sure students can actually use their devices when they aren’t physically on campus and within wi-fi range. For now, the district lends out to students (10) 4G-enabled Chromebooks that were donated by OpenRoom.

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E-rate Chromebook Accessibility Flipped Classroom 40

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Bobbie Smith, another Capehart resident, has a sixth- and seventh-grader in the Bangor school system. The network could be accessed by any students in the Bangor school system who live in Capehart and have a school-issued device to access the network, according to Bangor Superintendent Betsy Webb. Next page: Funding for the project.

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Laptops Chromebook Tablets Accessibility 48

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote learning full time and with no end in sight. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. on April 10, 2020.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

As summer vacation winds down, thousands of devices—including Chromebooks, iPads, and laptops—are in the care of school district IT departments. MDE leaders agreed with the Mississippi Alliance’s assessment and advocated for a cost model that reflected the true cost of configuring devices so that they were “ready-to-learn.”

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Broadband Survey Laptops Analysis 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2023

For a number of years, she’s relied on discount options for broadband so that her own family can connect to the internet. The broadband speed is supposed to be up to 300 gigabytes — considered moderate usage for an American household — but it can run slow because everyone is using it, Tang says.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Digital Divide 101

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. We are currently in the process of handing out 8,000 Chromebooks and hotspots for students to use at home.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 70

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

But evidence suggests that some of the blame for the struggles of BIE schools during Covid-19 lies on the shoulders of the federal government, which consistently bungled its role in helping schools adapt to remote learning and ensure that kids continued to receive an education. Her family is lucky to have a computer. Stalled Aid.

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Report Elementary Online Learning System 124