The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Debate about the fairness of online learning tends to revolve around technology access. And there are indeed sharp disparities in home access to computers and reliable broadband service. We’ve taught more than 150,000 students fully online in the last 10 years — including 35,000 students in 2019.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Persistence of the Digital Divide The pandemic exacerbated inequities in access and opportunity across the country, but this is particularly true of rural areas in the south. Experiences of digital access exist along a continuum. It is worth remembering that the digital divide is not an all or nothing phenomenon.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Mon, 11/25/2019 - 12:51. Economically disadvantaged students get Wi-Fi access through backpacks. Here are things to know about the hurdles the 2019 board members identified. . CHECK IT OUT : Read what three K–12 leaders say about ensuring students have equal access to digital resources. shailaja.neela…. Digital Equity.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

households lack what has become a basic need, according to a new report by EducationSuperHighway, an education nonprofit that in 2019 helped to almost eliminate the internet connectivity gap in classrooms across the country. Issues around broadband affordability disproportionately affect low-income, Black, and Latinx communities.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 12:34. Tracy Smith, Parkland’s assistant to the superintendent for operations, spoke with EdTech about the district’s strategies and best practices for improving digital equity and shared her hopes for bringing broadband to every home in the Lehigh Valley region. . keara.dowd_i47Z. Education now is 24/7.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, average fourth and eighth grade math and reading scores fell for most states between 2019 and 2022. In math, fourth graders fell five points nationally since 2019. In 2019, 31 percent were considered below basic level. That’s up from the 2019 results, which showed 34 percent below basic.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2019

Mon, 06/24/2019 - 13:57. E-rate , which helps schools and libraries obtain affordable high-speed internet access , last underwent big change in 2014. E-Rate Improvements Support Easier and Faster IT Upgrades. lora.strum_r7w0. It didn’t cover every classroom, and it used the 802.11n specification.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2020

Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2020

Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections.

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E-rate Broadband Guidelines Trends 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections.

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E-rate Broadband Guidelines Trends 150

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

EducationSuperHighway today released its annual State of the States report highlighting the major progress that has been achieved to connect nearly every public school classroom to high-speed broadband. million students across the nation who lack access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning. million students and 2.6

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

A lack of access to digital devices and home broadband access, distractions in learning from home, technical glitches, and unfamiliarity with online teaching and learning best practices are just some of the factors that made remote learning less effective than in-person instruction, especially for students in under-resourced communities.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 22, 2019

We are proud to announce our recent partnership with the New Jersey School Boards Association on the New Jersey K-12 Broadband Initiative, and look forward to working together to close the K-12 connectivity gap. The post NJSBA Launches Connectivity Initiative to Advance Internet Access in Schools appeared first on EducationSuperHighway.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Economically disadvantaged students get Wi-Fi access through backpacks. Here are things to know about the hurdles the 2019 board members identified. . CHECK IT OUT : Read what three K–12 leaders say about ensuring students have equal access to digital resources. Instruction weathers even the heaviest storms. Digital Equity.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Economically disadvantaged students get Wi-Fi access through backpacks. Here are things to know about the hurdles the 2019 board members identified. . CHECK IT OUT : Read what three K–12 leaders say about ensuring students have equal access to digital resources. Instruction weathers even the heaviest storms. Digital Equity.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While 2019 NAEP scores show just under half of white fourth-grade students were reading at or above proficiency, the number drops to 18 percent , or roughly one in six, for Black students. Several efforts are underway. Recently, NAEP determined a new reading assessment framework aimed at making the test more equitable.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

should be asked by all CIO’s, teachers, administrators and policymakers in this changing landscape of data access, student privacy and interoperability. Fruth describes this new data access landscape as a teeter-totter effect. The challenge, as highlighted by Fruth, is how much data should be accessible to the stakeholders.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In order to support digital and mobile learning, students in K-12 classrooms need access to sufficient bandwidth, scalable and affordable broadband infrastructure, and robust Wi-Fi. Related content: 6 realities about district broadband connections. And for the most part, they have it.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

This is especially true for K-12 and higher education as schools, colleges, and universities have been forced to close in order to slow the spread of the virus and find alternative, but technologically accessible, ways to reach students–literally. Private LTE is a mobile broadband network deployed to serve a specific organization.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

But computing power, device adoption, pervasive broadband and exponentially networked collaboration platforms of the past decade have already moved us to a world of information abundance. From 2008 to 2019 we have witnessed a 4,000-plus percent expansion in the number of funded edtech startups, and the best startups can become unicorns.

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ExcelinEd

APRIL 5, 2019

Visit EducationSuperHighway.org to learn how your state can upgrade internet access in every public school classroom to empower more students to take advantage of the promise of digital learning. edWebinar 4/9 State Leadership for K12 Broadband Implementation @ENAconnects @Kajeet @mobilebeacon @SETDA [link] pic.twitter.com/XmL5wKfgZT.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

BIOZONE has just published an exciting new AP Environmental Science title (in print and eBook) dedicated to addressing the College Board’s new APES Course & Exam Description (2019). Global climate change – latest scientific data (up to 2019 in some cases). Limited broadband access may be an obstacle for many students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The American Indian College Fund’s 2019-20 Student Ambassador cohort. Credit: Caitlin Alysse/American Indian College Fund 2019. Many offer much-needed internet service, providing access to some of the 35 percent of tribal land residents who do not have broadband service. By March 2020, that number had reached one in five.

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Survey Broadband Comparison Report 145

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during school closures.

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Libraries Survey E-rate Report 141

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

One big barrier to sustaining education via remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has been students’ unequal access to advanced technology tools. According to a 2019 Pew Research Center report, 96 percent of adults own a cell phone and 81 percent own a smartphone. But cell service is pretty reliable in most places.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

But a staggering number of families lack access to the digital tools required for learning at home. To date, much of the discussion around the digital divide has focused on the lack of devices and internet access: Only 56 percent of U.S. households with less than $30,000 in income have broadband at home.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 11, 2019

A version of this post was originally published on April 4th, 2019 on Education Technology. For example, there is no point spending thousands of dollars on new equipment if you don’t have the required WiFi connectivity, infrastructure or broadband speed for it. Read more: Don’t forget about pedagogy when chasing technology!

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

The newest voices in that choir come from Bill and Melinda Gates, who declared that “ textbooks are becoming obsolete ” in their 2019 annual letter. Even the most digitally connected educator will have access to a printer, Fields said. Technologists from Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, almost a century apart, have predicted their demise.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As the largest education technology program in the country, the Schools and Libraries program (E-rate) has transformed Internet access in our nation’s schools. In 2014, AASA played a lead role in modernizing the E-rate program, advocating for key changes such as: A policy update to make the program broadband-centric; and.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

Fast forward to 2019. A survey of schools and libraries done by the FCC in 2010 found that 80% reported that broadband services did not “fully meet their current needs.” classrooms have high-speed internet access. At the same time, we knew that technology was nowhere near a silver bullet. Today, 99% of U.S.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Over the past eight years, WANRack has worked with schools and communities to close the digital divide and ensure students have access to digital learning in every classroom, every day. “We are incredibly proud to provide access that opens up new opportunities for students.”

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 1, 2020

Given the disruptions caused by the pandemic, the FCC Order: Waives the service implementation deadline for special construction for all funding year 2019 applicants and extends this deadline by one year, from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2021. Under Commission rules, applicants must complete special construction (e.g.,

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E-rate Broadband Libraries Digital Learning 71

Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The Federal Communications Commission has issued a highly anticipated Report and Order (12/3/2019), that makes notable and permanent changes to E-rate rules for Category Two funding applications. The FCC has made permanent the eligibility of managed internal broadband services, caching, and basic maintenance of internal connections.

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E-rate Broadband Accessibility Report 64

Education Superhighway

JUNE 13, 2019

Here’s how broadband data provided by school districts across the nation helps improve educational equity for America’s students: 1. With access to accurate data, EducationSuperHighway was one of many organizations who were able to advocate for changes to the program – including an additional $1.4B

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Broadband internet access and cloud computing made it easier to distribute educational software once sold on floppy disks and CD-ROMs. In 2019, venture capitalists invested $1.7 About 120 people registered for its last summer gathering in June 2019. Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Applicants will at minimum, have access to new funding in FY 2020 if: . their budgets end in FY 2019). Applicants will at minimum, have access to whatever funding remains in FY 2020 if: They began using their 5-year budgets in subsequent funding years (i.e., FY 2016 – FY 2019). They have not used any Category 2 funding.

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