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The affordability gap is the biggest part of the digital divide

The Hechinger Report

Last year, as reported by The Hechinger Report’s Tara García Mathewson, the nonprofit group pivoted to solving the homework gap. Most of these households, he said, “have infrastructure available at their home but they just can’t afford to sign up for a broadband service.” to tackle the broadband affordability gap. However, 28.2

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OPINION: Historically underserved school districts in Mississippi were hit hard in the pandemic and need immediate help  

The Hechinger Report

percent, of households in the Black Rural South do not have broadband of at least 25 Mbps — the minimum standard for broadband internet. Evidence of this persistent struggle is the distressing fact that 32 school districts remain under federal desegregation orders. But it’s not just a Mississippi trend.

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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

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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New research finds widening educational inequity in year of COVID

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Achievement was lower for all student groups in 2020-21; historically underserved students (e.g., American Indian and Alaskan Native, Black, and Latino and/or students in high poverty schools) were disproportionately impacted, particularly in the elementary grades that NWEA studied. “As

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

According to a 2021 report from the think tank New America, 1 in 8 children from low-income families don’t have a computer at home, while 1 in 7 lack access to broadband internet. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The homework gap isn’t new.

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COVID-19 Is Pushing School Tech Departments to Their Limits — and Then Some

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As soon as we distributed our devices to our elementary students, possible or not we had to create a student help desk,” he said. She said a philanthropic group stepped up to loan 217 Wi-Fi hotspots to children in San Mateo County, but there are thousands more still in need. “We That mirrors Lorrie Owens’ experience in California.

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OPINION: Five ways to achieve equity in remote learning

The Hechinger Report

One of the largest concerns, though, is equity — not just how we must fund solutions to address disparities in student access to digital devices and broadband Internet, but how students safely engage to drive learning. An equity lens led the team to evaluate technologies along five dimensions: Who are the groups affected by the technology?

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