eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2023

Under the Biden-Harris Administration’s Internet for All Initiative, the Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program invests in projects that build regional networks that connect to national internet networks. The grants are part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, like many of the nation’s public school systems, is seeing increases in student poverty rates and English language proficiency — trends that could make any existing digital divides worse. But Parkland school leaders are taking proactive steps to improve digital equity.

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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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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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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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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2015

How K-12 school districts can help extend broadband access to their surrounding communities. And while many Americans do have high-speed broadband at home, such capabilities are not ubiquitous. According to the FCC, a digital divide persists between urban and non-urban parts of the country.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2016

Google’s affordable broadband service is already impacting some communities and schools. The latest Digital Equity report from the Consortium of School Networking paints a rosy picture of an educational environment where students have generally good access to high-speed wi-fi while in school. Google’s strategy.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools. Thus, there is a homework gap—the problem created when students who use digital learning in class can’t get online at home to finish up their schoolwork.

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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

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

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

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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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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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 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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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

Much of what I’ve heard has been about ST Math , but many of these strategies are applicable to any program or situation. Unfortunately, school closures have meant a step backward for many when it comes to the digital divide. Supporting Students and Families.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

“Next year, many traditional education strategies will fade away as educators help students recover from the pandemic’s impact, especially with harder-hit groups like students who learn and think differently. GHz frequency of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band. Jeff Rubenstein, VP Product Strategy, Kaltura.

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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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Neo LMS

AUGUST 17, 2021

As an educator, you need to establish strategies that make certain the approach is right for every learner. In this article, we’re going to look at a few tools and strategies you can use to approach remote education in a positive, inclusive way. Read more: 6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Public Schools, digital equity and access to technology at home is a very real problem. Without home access to broadband Internet, students don’t have a chance at an equitable education and have virtually no chance to compete for the best jobs and an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty that is pervasive in the Washington inner city.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Her boldest claim: That her administration would close the digital divide by 2020 with 100 percent of American families having the "option" of quality broadband. Clinton also made diversity in the tech workforce one of the goals of her higher education and job training strategy.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Connecting our nation’s schools, libraries, health clinics and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) to next generation high-speed broadband is an important national priority. The SHLB Action Plan gives policy makers a road map for designing a broadband strategy that promotes education, health care and community enrichment.”.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

In 2014, nearly 75 percent of school systems surveyed did not have any off-campus strategies for providing connectivity to students at home and after school. E2D, Eliminate the Digital Divide , a non-profit organization has been formed, and together, their collective impact is making strong headway. Together, we’re better.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. How Forest Fires Are Prompting California to Rethink Strategies. But more work needs to be done to shrink the digital divide. They say never waste a crisis,” he said. Credit: AP Photo/Kantele Franko.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And with online assessments now being required in many states, reliable broadband access is also essential so that students’ knowledge and skills are accurately represented, and technology is not a barrier to achievement and its documentation. Sheryl Abshire, Ph.D., Application processes vary, based on the state, as do disbursements.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Some of the strategies they’re using now might easily be extended through the summer months. While a pandemic shouldn’t be the impetus for giving students what they need, we can take advantage of the fact that the crisis is forcing districts to finally close the digital divide.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 13, 2016

history to bridge the digital divide.”. families with children in school do not have home broadband access. Students who get a smartphone can also use it as a hotspot, and for unlimited calls and texts in the United States, while on a Sprint network. Sprint is billing the efforts as the “largest corporate initiative in U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

So his organization is working with the city of Orangeburg and Claflin University to extend the university’s broadband out into the surrounding community at affordable rates. Higher ed has been paying more attention to this idea since pandemic-era remote learning underscored students’ uneven access to computers and internet.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Proposed legislation would ensure students have access to digital learning resources, internet outside of school. New legislation introduced in Congress would support “innovative strategies and methods to increase out-of-school access to digital learning resources” in an effort to boost both student and educator engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Now, the strategies she had pieced together to survive were being whittled away. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. Their family does not have a computer or broadband internet at home, so the siblings have to take turns sharing their mom’s phone to access online lessons. The digital divide.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We still have a huge digital divide, a huge homework gap,” Marwell says. schools connected to high-speed broadband over the last decade, turned his attention to household connectivity during the pandemic. EducationSuperHighway tested this strategy in two towns in Massachusetts, Worcester and Springfield.

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Education Superhighway

MAY 19, 2022

Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released three Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program ($42.5 billion) ; Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program ($1 billion) ; and, State Digital Equity Act programs ? ($1.5

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

AIR works with local communities to address this detriment through an integrated development programs that provide low-cost refurbished computers with relevant open source educational software, support and teacher training directed at schools and community centers especially in less privileged areas where the digital divide is at its greatest.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2022

Yet efforts to improve our neighborhoods and schools have long operated on separate and uncoordinated tracks: one set of programs for neighborhood renewal and another, unconnected, strategy for school development. Related: OPINION: How targeted federal action could finally chip away at the broadband racism faced by Black students.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The Contorium for School Networking (CoSN) has developed some best practice strategies for schools looking to directly address the issues of digital equity. The Contorium for School Networking (CoSN) has developed some best practice strategies for schools looking to directly address the issues of digital equity.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Future Ready Schools ® helps district leaders plan and implement personalized, research-based digital learning strategies so all students can achieve their full potential. This leading nonprofit believes in the promise of digital learning opportunities and advocates for all students to have equal access to educational opportunity.

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