The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The Class of 2020 is graduating from a distance. Sadly, though, the reality is that millions of Americans — in rural and urban areas alike, and including many underrepresented minorities — lack the reliable broadband connections needed to access postsecondary and K-12 education in a nation that remains in partial lockdown.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A State-wide Approach When school closures began in spring 2020, Carey Wright, state superintendent of education for Mississippi, seized the opportunity to address the digital divide in the state. To receive the devices, districts had to match 20 percent of funds received and submit a digital learning plan to the MDE by September 1, 2020.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2021

Broadband access and the ever-growing equity gap are among K-12 IT leaders’ top concerns, according to CoSN’s annual IT Leadership Survey. Efforts to expand broadband access outside of school have increased dramatically.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

A health crisis running headlong into an education crisis: Welcome to the 2020-2021 school year. Even with a device, data indicated some 39 percent of our students lacked reliable (or any) broadband service in their homes. It is a moral imperative that we address this equity gap in access to technology and high-speed broadband.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2021

Millions lack broadband. Above all, 2020 has taught us the wisdom in the African proverb that it takes a village to raise a child, and in the Chinese proverb that a child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. Access to technology, we have learned, is also critical. That’s what truly matters.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2024

Broadband — high-speed internet — is critical for learning. And the pandemic focused attention on inequitable access to broadband services in education. In 2020, by one federal estimate, 18 percent of people living on tribal lands were unable to access broadband (outside of tribal areas, that number was closer to 4 percent).

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Tom Murray

MAY 23, 2018

In places like Albemarle County, Virginia , school leaders have been developing a 4G Network to support their entire community, every day of the year, by 2020. In this Lifeline Modernization Order , the Commission included broadband as a support service in the Lifeline program for those in need. Promote the Lifeline Program.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2021

Attendance is capped at 500, about half the number that attended in early 2020. Attendees won’t have to make such fraught choices at the annual Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition conference in Arlington, Va.—scheduled “I actually really feel like we are practicing what we preach in the field with a hybrid conference.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

Cases like 2020’s Cayla J. Then, there are states that lacked laws prior to 2020, but began responding to the at-home learning requirement with new legislation for future needs. Finally, there are states that had some version of a law prior to 2020 and proceeded to add provisions to better address the needs of distance learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Accounting for True Costs of Device Purchase When schools shut down in March 2020, leaders at the MDE began to take stock of the needs of students, teachers and school and district administrators and staff throughout the state. Before the pandemic, the state ranked lowest on the number of broadband subscribers per capita.

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Broadband Laptops Survey Analysis 149

EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In the US alone, students experiencing more than 60 minutes per week of device use achieved higher academic results through 2020, while 81% of facilitators said that having access to EdTech improved outputs considerably during the same period. The Last Word.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Broadband access and the ever-growing equity gap are among K-12 IT leaders’ top concerns, according to CoSN’s annual IT Leadership Survey. Efforts to expand broadband access outside of school have increased dramatically. Concerns about digital equity have increased.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2020

One notable change is the FCC made permanent the Category Two budget approach it adopted in 2014, extending the trial period an extra year through the 2020 funding year. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections. The application process is underway for the 2020 funding year.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2020

One notable change is the FCC made permanent the Category Two budget approach it adopted in 2014, extending the trial period an extra year through the 2020 funding year. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections. The application process is underway for the 2020 funding year.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

One notable change is the FCC made permanent the Category Two budget approach it adopted in 2014, extending the trial period an extra year through the 2020 funding year. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections. The application process is underway for the 2020 funding year.

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E-rate Broadband Guidelines Trends 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 31, 2019

One notable change is the FCC made permanent the Category Two budget approach it adopted in 2014, extending the trial period an extra year through the 2020 funding year. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections. The application process is underway for the 2020 funding year.

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E-rate Broadband Guidelines Trends 150

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I contributed to the upcoming 2020 report. . There’s a growing understanding that disparities in home broadband internet access put students at a disadvantage — typically those who already face obstacles because of low family income or race. Here are things to know about the hurdles the 2019 board members identified. . Digital Equity.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2021

The report finds that since March 2020, programs to enable distance learning during the pandemic reduced the number of students without access to broadband service by 20 to 40 percent and reduced the number of students without access to an e-learning device by 40 to 60 percent.

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Digital Divide Broadband Analysis Report 122

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

. “As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, communities now have a much deeper appreciation for the significant role that broadband communication plays in educating students and connecting our citizens. ” Key 2020 report findings include: 1.

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E-rate Report Broadband Libraries 141

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

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. adults lost their main source of internet access as libraries started to shut down in March 2020. 1,182) and Australia (1,040) in December 2020.

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SETDA Says

JUNE 29, 2020

It is difficult to believe that it has been 13 years since SETDA’s 2008 journey in developing and publishing the Class of 2020: Action Plan for Education. At that time, the critical topics that bubbled to the top were broadband access, […]. This project included a Student Bill of Rights and a series of white papers (below).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A recent analysis of federal government data by Jeff Seaman of Bayview Analytics shows that enrollment in on-campus courses fell nearly 11 percent in the past decade and almost 30 percent from 2020 to 2021. or in disadvantaged countries abroad that lack robust broadband options depend on mobile devices to participate online.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 8, 2020

Offering two months of free service to new Access customers who order by April 30, 2020. $5/mo Starting April 3rd, Verizon is making a new broadband discount program available to new Fios Internet customers who qualify through the Lifeline program. $20 GET IN TOUCH. Home Internet Offers. Waiving all home Internet data overage fees.

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Broadband Resources Data Accessibility 98

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Schools across the country were forced to rapidly shift to distance learning last spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as the 2020-2021 school year began in the fall and teachers and students were still trying to adjust to this “new normal,” those in the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program had an advantage.

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Broadband Learning Blended Learning Training 160

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

States like my home state of North Carolina are addressing broadband access, because technology is now a basic need for students in the same way up-to-date textbooks once were. Data also shows a clear need for equity in all aspects of our education system, which includes bringing leaders of color into the rooms where policy is being made.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

public school students in grades 3-8 between fall 2020 and spring 2021 and found: On average, students across most grades and subject areas made learning gains in 2020-21, but at a lower rate compared to pre-pandemic trends. 2020-21 outcomes were lower relative to historic trends. million U.S.

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Broadband Trends Education Outcomes 115

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Today’s students, teachers, and administrative staff are facing unprecedented connectivity challenges as the 2020 school year brings more and more distance learning options. Today, more than 9 million students lack proper access to reliable broadband internet at home, which creates obstacles for both the students and teachers.

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Broadband Learning Industry Accessibility 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

This op-ed is part of a series of year-end reflections EdSurge is publishing as 2020 concludes. Rather than frame these changes solely as a response to the pandemic, however, we should instead view them as providing every student with what they need to succeed in school and beyond—something which is long overdue.

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Broadband Personalized Learning System Strategy 177

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

Instead, EducationSuperHighway is sunsetting because, well, that’s what Marwell always intended it to do—once the organization reached its expressed goal of connecting 99 percent of K-12 students to high-speed broadband. So seven years ago, knowing little about school broadband, he dove in. We’re almost to the end.”

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Broadband E-rate Advocacy Industry 133

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 24, 2022

As of December 30, 2021, the federal Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) will end and begin officially transitioning to the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The previous EBB provided $50 per month to homes to spend on a broadband internet connection and $100 for use toward a connected device, excluding cell phones.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

Adams told MIND that Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) began with a district-wide survey to determine each family’s need for computers or a wired home broadband connection. May 5, 2020. March 31, 2020. March 31, 2020. March 31, 2020. Thank you for supporting and encouraging your students. Distance Learning is tough.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 31, 2017

This catalyzed a sea change in the broadband available in America’s schools. The impact of E-rate modernization is most evident in the acceleration of the pace of upgrades in K-12 broadband networks. “We need to show the FCC and USAC how E-rate funds have made school broadband upgrades a reality for their students.

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E-rate Broadband Digital Divide Digital Learning 82

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

As the start of the 2020-21 school year approaches, states and school districts are wrestling with decisions about when, how and whether school will take place inside brick-and-mortar classrooms. No matter the Day One plans in your local area this fall, every school district must be ready for partially or fully remote school days.

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Broadband Learning Accessibility Outcomes 144

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.

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Education Advocacy Learning Broadband 216

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I contributed to the upcoming 2020 report. . There’s a growing understanding that disparities in home broadband internet access put students at a disadvantage — typically those who already face obstacles because of low family income or race. Here are things to know about the hurdles the 2019 board members identified. . Digital Equity.

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Broadband Future Ready EdTech Training 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I contributed to the upcoming 2020 report. . There’s a growing understanding that disparities in home broadband internet access put students at a disadvantage — typically those who already face obstacles because of low family income or race. Here are things to know about the hurdles the 2019 board members identified. . Digital Equity.

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