2016 Broadband Digital Divide 
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The program was first announced in 2016, and the launch is expected this summer—though it was delayed early this year because of a lack of critical workers. During the pandemic, broadband access became more pressing than ever for education, as schools and colleges suddenly shifted most teaching online.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016. These reports, some observers believe, mark a thoughtful step toward ensuring digital equity. There are some attempts to plug the cavernous hole that would leave in funding broadband advances.
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Neo LMS
JULY 12, 2018
Only 3% of teachers in high-poverty level schools said that their students had the digital tools necessary to complete homework assignments, compared to 52% of teachers in more affluent schools. A counterpoint to these figures, is also the finding that 70% of teachers assign homework requiring broadband access. EveryoneOn.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 5, 2017
on February 23, 2016, an incendiary email landed on a nonprofit listserv, blasting a federal program that many of the listserv’s members rely on to bring high-speed internet to low-income and rural Americans. This issue [the ‘homework gap’] constitutes a new civil right: the right to digital equity.”. Shortly before 1 a.m.
Edsurge
JANUARY 3, 2018
John Harrington, Funds for Learning Among the groups commenting on the issue, both ISTE and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) raised the possibility that digital education providers can pay to deliver their content more quickly, and wondered aloud if the move would deepen the digital divide.
eSchool News
MARCH 31, 2016
A recently-approved expansion of an FCC program will grant millions of low-income households a discount on internet access in an effort to help close what is becoming known as the digital divide — the lack of reliable high-speed internet access for lower income families.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 15, 2015
Here are five key trends that CTOs will be watching and reacting to in 2016: The modernized E-rate program. Krueger, CEO at CoSN – the Consortium for School Networking , said the fact that the modernized E-rate hones in on broadband and more robust networks is a net positive for K-12 IT departments and their CTOs. Broadband equity.
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