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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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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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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Broadband Digital Divide Training Strategy 52

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

She attends a highly resourced school with computer science courses, well-trained teachers and one computing device per student. It’s a longstanding national crisis, often referred to as the “digital divide,” which at Kapor Capital we identify as one of the cumulative barriers across The Leaky Tech Pipeline.

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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. Yet, sadly, Darriale is far from alone. So, where does this leave these students and their families?

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Digital Divide Broadband Company Accessibility 40

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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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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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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STEM Digital Divide Broadband Policies 90

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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EdTech Survey Digital Divide Classroom 139

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We As a result, school district IT teams will look to vendors and broadband solution providers to support other use cases in 2021 that go beyond COVID-19, such as school bus security cameras and indoor IoT to help manage building operations (e.g.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Lack of high-speed Internet prevents teachers and students from taking full advantage of the transformational power of digital learning and leaves millions of kids on the wrong side of the digital divide. High-speed broadband equalizes educational opportunity and accelerates learning. As a result, $2.5

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Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Digital Learning 40

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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Future Ready Digital Divide Digital Learning Broadband 130

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. Application processes vary, based on the state, as do disbursements. Cynthia Schultz, Esq.,

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E-rate EdTech Broadband Digital Divide 42

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. In Occidental, California, Matthew Morgan, superintendent of the Harmony Union School District, said the pandemic has exposed a big digital divide and online learning was slow to roll out. “We

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Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 117

Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Far too many futurologists, authors and commentators are ignoring the issue of the digital divide. The digital divide will not go away, but it cannot be ignored. But to be fair, the digital divide is not always about lack of money, even though most accounts cite this as the prime cause. Lack of finance.

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Digital Divide Broadband Facebook Outcomes 64

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Along with the increase in speed, there’s been an exponential increase in the use of digital tools in the classroom. Teachers attend training sessions via webinar. While broadband wasn’t a specific focus of the survey, Purcell said that the issue did arise frequently in focus groups. People talked about it as a great leveler.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber.

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EdTech Guidelines Policies Secondary 95

Neo LMS

AUGUST 17, 2021

While there are video and audio tools that help bridge the physical distance, your communications strategy needs to include cognizance of the digital divide and your students’ access to these tools. Read more: 6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide.

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Strategy Tools Digital Divide Exercises 368

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. That is such a great space for higher ed to show up in because you train the workforce,” she explained during the webinar. Department of Commerce.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Data 140

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. Inequity looms large. Coronavirus gave many just days.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

One key issue that emerged was an ongoing digital divide. That divide affected a significant share of college students in West Virginia, a state where officials say nearly 40 percent of rural residents don’t have broadband. We helped faculty to get up to an engagement process, not just delivering the academics.

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Policies Broadband Digital Divide Outcomes 118

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

We will provide training for volunteers over the next few weeks, and your assistance will be greatly appreciated by our conference presenters. AIR was established in order to address the critical need for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and training at school level in Ghana. More information at [link].

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Education Superhighway

JULY 31, 2020

With the possibility of remote learning returning this fall, the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the philanthropic community, and leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) recognized a historic opportunity to eliminate broadband accessibility as a barrier to digital learning. Digital literacy support.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

An uncounted number of school days are lost due to high levels of poverty, which limits families’ access to services like healthcare, housing, transportation and broadband. Investing in vaccinations, training and equipment for teachers minimized the academic damage for students. The pandemic exacerbated these issues.

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Broadband Digital Divide Report Accessibility 120

Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

This leading nonprofit believes in the promise of digital learning opportunities and advocates for all students to have equal access to educational opportunity. Such opportunity requires high-speed broadband in every school and Education SuperHighway is working to make that opportunity a reality. Organization: EveryoneOn.

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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

MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The digital divide is still big and complex. Lee at Brookings is working on a book about the digital divide, and she says it’s multidimensional. There’s housing: Lose your home and you lose your broadband connection. “That rural Internet divide is real. Then there’s infrastructure.

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Digital Divide Learning Laptops Broadband 28

MindShift

APRIL 24, 2020

And that means training and support for teachers, and equipment for children. Eskelsen Garcia of the NEA says the equity issue is acute: “What we’ve been telling [political leaders] for years is the digital divide is hurting children. To have broadband, a tablet or a laptop is not to play video games.

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Digital Divide Broadband Groups Policies 69

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

And unfortunately, we know that for those who do attend college, many fail to complete, leaving millions of young people without the education and training necessary for career success. Despite the pressure to attend, reports suggest 53 percent of high school students are unlikely to pursue a college degree.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 73

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The pandemic highlighted the massive digital divide that exists between marginalized communities and affluent communities that enjoy well-established digital infrastructure. FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 120

MindShift

JULY 10, 2020

Among them: How can we safely toilet train students with autism? Nicol Turner Lee, an expert on educational technology and digital divides at the Brookings Institution, is in frequent consultation with districts around the country. How can students in band play a trumpet with a mask on? Yet simple access is still a big problem.

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Education Survey Digital Divide Broadband 47

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

Proponents of digital learning, as well as those committed to closing the nation's “homework gap,” rejoiced on Thursday when the U.S. Senate introduced a bill that would invest hundreds of millions of dollars to expand broadband access in communities that currently lack it. pic.twitter.com/kHeaPLOf2r — SETDA (@SETDA) April 11, 2019.

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Digital Divide Broadband Libraries Advocacy 167

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Via Education Week : “ FCC Delays, Denials Foil Rural Schools’ Broadband Plans.” ” (Like I’ve said previously, these corporate stories really do belong in “the business of job training” section below.). The Business of Job Training. ” (That’s George Ciccariello-Maher.). .”

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MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Connect All Learners The most crucial issue to address is the digital divide. The report highlights states (Tennessee, Mississippi, Massachusetts) that have used state and federal relief funding to purchase devices and expand broadband connectivity. You can read the full report, including the other five suggestions, here.

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Digital Divide How To Learning Broadband 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For older learners, Biden’s focus on bringing back “shop classes,” apprenticeships and vocational training received warm reception. “If Working with teacher-training programs at colleges to update accreditation standards and incorporate technology skills, she notes, would be a strong start.

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