2018 Broadband Digital Divide 
Neo LMS
JANUARY 4, 2018
Welcome to NEO Blog 2018! Today we launch right in with a topic that is on the minds and hearts of many teachers – the “digital divide”; that silent, pernicious socioeconomic gap between students that have and students that do not have access to technology. Digital divide: facts and figures.
eSchool News
AUGUST 7, 2024
Although some gains in high school students’ technological device and internet access have occurred since ACT first investigated the digital divide in 2018, device and internet access of students with lower family incomes is lagging that of students with higher family incomes,” said Jeff Schiel, Ph.D,
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Ed Tech from the Ground Up
APRIL 21, 2016
It suggests that the vast majority of students have access to broadband capabilities. The goal of Obama’s ConnectED initiative is to equip every school in the country with high-speed broadband by 2018 at speeds greater than 100 Mbps. That leaves us with at least five more years of classrooms with insufficient broadband.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 10, 2020
If you look at data from the National Center for Education Statistics, you can see steady gains made between 2000 and 2018. Related: OPINION: College in a pandemic is tough enough — without reliable broadband access, it’s nearly impossible. Now is not the time to lose focus.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 27, 2020
According to 2018 study by the U.S. A 2018 meta-analysis found that summer interventions are likely most effective for improving outcomes for low-income students and narrowing the achievement gap between students who are poor and those who are not. More recent studies show that the summer is a pivotal period for student learning.
Education Superhighway
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Ninety-nine percent of America’s schools now have high-speed broadband connections capable of providing enough bandwidth to enable their students and teachers to use technology in the classroom. million teachers in 83,000 schools have the Internet access they need for digital learning. million students and 2.8 million today.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 11, 2018
And yet, reliable broadband is far from guaranteed in this region of towering plateaus, sagebrush valleys and steep canyons. According to an April 2018 Department of Education report, 18 percent of 5- to 17-year old students in “remote rural” districts have no broadband access at home.
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