Broadband Digital Divide Personalized Learning Report 
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 25, 2021
School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We 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.
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Pandemic-era lockdowns put an unmistakable spotlight on digital equity — particularly for K-12 students. But nowhere is the digital divide larger than in the Black rural South. billion for a $30-per-month broadband subsidy for low-income Americans, and we stand to make gains in both access and affordability.
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.”. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If
Edsurge
JUNE 11, 2021
And while systems might not continue to operate as 100 percent virtual schools in a post-COVID world, better access to learning technology is no longer negotiable in this increasingly-digital world. 1560 , and proposed adding sections designed “to close the digital divide in California.”
Education Superhighway
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
EducationSuperHighway today released its annual State of the States report highlighting the major progress that has been achieved to connect nearly every public school classroom to high-speed broadband. At the same time, the report cites the urgent need to close the digital divide for 2.3 million students and 2.6
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. We’ve kind of realized that schools aren’t necessarily the best at operating broadband networks, so we should let people specialize.”.
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