The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

households lack home broadband internet access because they cannot afford to connect. in Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) funding included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to deploy Free Apartment Wi-Fi programs to address these inequalities. 17 million U.S.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 28, 2023

This month, Maine became one of the first states to share their draft Broadband Action Plans and companion Digital Equity Plan as part of the $42.45 The state plan pays particular attention to tackling the broadband affordability gap , which makes up two-thirds of America’s digital divide.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

Our society relies on the internet for education, jobs, and personal needs, yet our country’s digital divide has been an ongoing issue, affecting the 14.5 million Americans who don’t have access to broadband internet. This issue is not just limiting education access, but it’s also contributing to an ongoing workforce crisis.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Multiple studies and surveys have documented the ever-narrowing digital divide. That is students who are “under-connected.” “There are still a proportion of families who have no internet access, and that’s massively important,” says Vikki Katz, associate professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The team can be reached via our ACP benefit information page or by clicking the ‘Live Chat’ button in our enrollment assistance tool, GetACP.org. How the Contact Center Addresses Enrollment Barriers Millions of ACP-eligible households aren’t taking advantage of up to $360 per year in federal broadband benefits.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2022

The digital divide–the gap between people who have access to modern information and communications technology and those who do not – is a major issue. million Americans lack home broadband access. The survey also finds that 64 percent of U.S. For these 14.5 High-Speed Internet is a Necessity, Not a Luxury.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls. If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”. They’re building their own countywide broadband network.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2022

The Stay Connected K-12 offering is part of the District’s broader efforts to help close the digital divide in its communities and make it easier for all students to fulfill their academic potential. Robust and reliable internet connectivity at-home plays a key role in bridging the digital divide and helping students to succeed.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

We hope to share these best practices and inform the work of many more school systems, as well as the work of state chiefs of education and governors as they plan to use unprecedented federal funding to close the digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

On October 12, EducationSuperHighway released its second No Home Left Offline report, which highlights the barriers that continue to stand in the way of internet access for millions of Americans and lays out what states need to do to help connect families to broadband. Related: The affordability gap is the biggest part of the digital divide.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

If the workday of an adult typically requires seamless broadband access, then it’s reasonable that today’s students need the same access during their school day. The key is the state leadership to make broadband accessible to all. More important, states are starting to recognize the need for equitable access off site.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, Savvas enables teachers to better connect with students by helping to close the digital divide. That broadband disparity increases to 23% and 25% for Black and Hispanic households respectively, and it’s even more pronounced in lower-income households.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2016

The digital divide is a reality for three out of four American families, meaning approximately eight million individuals under the age of 18 are living without internet access. Because the families we’re trying to reach do not have access at home, information needs to be provided in practical and accessible ways.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 9, 2020

EducationSuperHighway will focus on building public-private partnerships to connect over ten million students who lack home broadband. Today, we announced we are delaying our planned sunset to connect students who lack home broadband. Funding: There needs to be federal funding for student home digital access. population.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2023

Digital Equity is customizable, giving leaders the option to turn on specific data and usage stats. Make data-informed decisions to ensure all students have access to adequate digital tools and broadband internet through introducing large-scale solutions such as hotspots, Wi-Fi enabled community centers and more.

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Education Superhighway

MARCH 30, 2022

Last year, Congress created the Affordable Connectivity Program, a new long-term, $14 billion programs, to replace the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program (EBB) in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Tailwinds: An Enabling Ecosystem A baseline enabling condition for game-based learning is access to computers and broadband. COVID has also accelerated funding for broadband in underserved neighborhoods. While there is still work to do in closing the digital divide, access is becoming less of a limiting factor for game-based learning.

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Neo LMS

JULY 12, 2018

Only 3% of teachers in high-poverty level schools said that their students had the digital tools necessary to complete homework assignments, compared to 52% of teachers in more affluent schools. A counterpoint to these figures, is also the finding that 70% of teachers assign homework requiring broadband access. EveryoneOn.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 23, 2017

The results of the connectivity report and survey gave us enough information to provide the tools and resources to help close the school connectivity gap. Led interactive webinars to improve broadband price transparency and discuss opportunities for school districts to increase bandwidth for little to no additional cost.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2019

In Albemarle County, Virginia, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, radio towers rise above an apple orchard on Carters Mountain, outside Charlottesville. Tom Rolfes, education IT manager for the Nebraska Information Technology Commission. Photo: Chris Berdik. We are heartbroken.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

It is also not too surprising, given that for much of this decade businesses and governments have laid the infrastructure needed to support online learning, through enabling better broadband internet access and providing cheap computing devices to schools. A different ‘digital divide’ has emerged.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Stay Connected K-12 provides schools the ability to offer high-speed, cable broadband internet access directly to their students in their own homes so learning and teaching are uninterrupted. More information about Charter can be found at corporate.charter.com. More than 5,300 families are anticipated to participate initially.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

Private 5G For All The pandemic has demonstrated the importance of everyone having a broadband internet connection. The Kajeet Private 5G Network Operations Center (NOC) manages and maintains customers’ private networks 24x7x365 using advanced AIOps and analytics tools and systems to proactively manage the network and optimize performance.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Access to the internet and digital resources is now easier than than just a few years ago. We carry around, many times in our pockets, a portal to the proverbial information superhighway where we can find just about anything we want to know. It’s not like it was back when I was high school when this was a familiar sight.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

We’ll also see educators needing to address the mental health crisis by prioritizing individualized and trauma-informed instruction.” Safely getting back to the classroom requires many new precautions, and in 2021, innovations in technology such as digital signage software and content management will play a major role.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

That’s one of the key findings in a just-released Common Sense Media survey tracking media habits among children aged 0-8, which also found a narrowing but significant digital divide among lower-income households, and the first signs that virtual reality and internet-connected toys are finding their way into American homes.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

And yet, reliable broadband is far from guaranteed in this region of towering plateaus, sagebrush valleys and steep canyons. According to an April 2018 Department of Education report, 18 percent of 5- to 17-year old students in “remote rural” districts have no broadband access at home.

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