Chromebook Company Digital Divide System 
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 25, 2021
Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. The devices are headed to seventh and eighth graders. Back to Class: How schools can rebound.
The Innovative Educator
JANUARY 20, 2022
Pre-pandemic there was an enormous digital divide. All this when Chromebooks were available for around $200 (or $50 - $75 a year per student). Access to the Internet The pandemic no longer allowed elected officials to ignore the digital divide. Normal was a digital divide.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 20, 2020
Address the digital divide. As thousands of school districts across the country have rolled out remote learning, many have discovered that students have very different sets of resources when it comes to digital education tools. Some districts are shipping off Chromebooks to students. The data tells the tale.
Edsurge
MAY 29, 2020
Unfortunately, for many schools and districts, the need for digital services and software to support basic communication between teachers, parents and students across the digital divide is one that is often overlooked and underfunded. For schools across the country, there is a digital chasm.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 4, 2020
In an online press conference May 27, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said that while the state has worked with companies and foundations to distribute more than a 100,000 hotspots and 21,000 computers, “there’s a gap in supply.” By the end of May, the problem had not been resolved.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 22, 2019
In a combined biology/literature class, students at James Lick High School complete assignments using school-supplied Chromebooks. At James Lick High School the slate-gray Chromebooks are ubiquitous. What’s unusual about James Lick’s Chromebook program isn’t the laptops themselves, but how they were paid for. SAN JOSE, Calif. —
Edsurge
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Ned Lamont, a former telecom mogul who founded Campus Televideo, a company that provided cable to college campuses. The impetus was really to close that achievement gap and that digital divide.” We did find that people just didn’t have access,” says Sherelle Harris, the interim director of the Norwalk Public Library System. “We
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