Digital Divide Libraries Mobility Survey 
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. OAKLAND, Calif.
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
Educators and digital equity advocates have tried a number of solutions to close the so-called “homework gap,” from deploying mobile hotspots to getting help from local businesses , but the problem has persisted. The digital divide, like so many issues in the U.S., In an effort to address the digital divide, the U.S.
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EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, like many of the nation’s public school systems, is seeing increases in student poverty rates and English language proficiency — trends that could make any existing digital divides worse. But Parkland school leaders are taking proactive steps to improve digital equity.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 10, 2020
A Strada Public Viewpoint survey released in June found that Black and Latino students are more likely than white students to have changed or canceled their education plans because of the pandemic. The pandemic threatens to undo all of these even modest gains, and certainly imperils progress among students of color and low-income students.
The Daring Librarian
DECEMBER 11, 2010
On the back of my Sephora catalog, windows of shops, and in my library! A Quick Response (QR) code is a two-dimensional or 2D bar code which can be interpreted by any mobile phone with camera capabilities. QR Codes in the Classroom - and the Library! QR Codes are popping up everywhere! but what heck ARE they?
Edsurge
DECEMBER 15, 2020
The impetus was really to close that achievement gap and that digital divide.” We really directed districts to provide those cellular hotspots to kids who had a lot of mobility needs.” To improve communication, districts have mobilized social services teams that contact and even visit with families directly.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 12, 2017
But a few pioneering districts have shown that it’s possible, and Albemarle County has joined a nascent trend of districts trying to build their own bridges across the digital divide. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) divides up the spectrum into allowable uses, such as for TV, radio, satellites and mobile data.
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