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

The Hechinger Report

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. We have such close relationships with other city agencies, and local libraries and community centers.

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How Offline-First Edtech Addresses Education Disparities Worldwide

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Endless Network , a global organization dedicated to promoting equity and accessibility, invests strategically in companies worldwide to address challenges such as limited access to quality education. Closing global education gaps How is Learning Equality addressing the challenge of the digital divide and the 2.6

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Making educators’ lives easier for World Teachers’ Day

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Did you know that according to a United States Department of Education survey, 94% of public school educators buy supplies with their own money ? For example, do this directly by donating supplies, funding a GoFundMe page set by a teacher, or by pitching in their Amazon (or any other company) wish list. Helping with classroom supplies.

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Millions of Students Are Still Without WiFi and Tech—Why Haven’t Policymakers Stepped Up?

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One example is New Jersey, where schools and districts were required to submit to the state “a survey weekly of how many students lacked devices and/or WiFi,” according to Erica Hartman, Director of Technology Integration at New Jersey’s Morris School District. Still, no new regulations have yet emerged from that data gathering.

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Nearly all American classrooms can now connect to high-speed internet, effectively closing the “connectivity divide”

The Hechinger Report

“We believed if we had connectivity in every classroom, that would give every teacher the opportunity to take advantage of digital learning.”. EducationSuperHighway surveyed school districts and found that 94 percent use digital learning in at least half of their classrooms every week. Their plan seems to have worked.

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Connecticut Gives Every Student a Computer and Home Internet to Close the Digital Divide

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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.” a city of about 88,000, a survey earlier this year revealed between 7 and 8 percent of families did not have home internet.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.