Education Superhighway

AUGUST 15, 2017

As is the case in many mega-districts, PWCPS already had access to high-speed broadband. The district put in a request to their school board to upgrade their network’s bandwidth, and sought out additional support to make their broadband goals a reality. They had recently increased from 1 Gbps to 2 Gbps. GAINING MOMENTUM.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside the Classroom Report , by the Department of Education, identified the three main causes of digital inequity as access and cost of high speed broadband and the lack of understanding by school families as to the importance of internet to support their students’ education.

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Accessibility Digital Citizenship E-rate Broadband 57

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. Apple joined President Obama’s ConnectED initiative and pledged $100 million of teaching and learning solutions to 114 underserved schools across the country. This includes more than $2 billion in private-sector commitments.

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Education Superhighway

MARCH 28, 2019

Thanks to Robin’s collaborative efforts to upgrade Rappahannock’s network, her students and teachers now have more than enough bandwidth for their digital learning needs. .” HER IMPACT. While they were previously stuck on a 150Mbps cable connection, they now have 500Mbps of fiber that is capable of scaling to 1Gbps speeds.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The district’s Director of Technology Services, Keith Bockwoldt, has spent the last several years ensuring that his teachers have the tools and resources they need to help all students take advantage of digital learning opportunities. I saw the need to start paying attention to a cloud-based curriculum as we moved towards 1:1 devices.”

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E-rate Broadband iPad Accessibility 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

In Utah, the Murray City School District had been slowly developing a broadband network for students for two years when funding from the CARES Act helped the district speed up the rollout. million toward new iPads for every student in K-5 and all staff pre-K-8. Related: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 141

eSpark

JANUARY 11, 2016

families, broadband is not affordable. According to Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking, over 70% of teachers say their students need internet access in order to complete the homework assignment each night, a percentage that will only increase as more and more districts introduce digital learning into their classrooms.

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Education Broadband Blended Learning Policies 40

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. Before the pandemic, the state ranked lowest on the number of broadband subscribers per capita. But allocating funding for broadband made MDE’s 1:1 initiative more likely to succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission estimates that about 21 million Americans lack broadband access, with an independent research group indicating the actual number is twice as high. For rural communities that are committed to providing all of their students with options for digital learning, the transition is often a multistep process.

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