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).
eSchool News
OCTOBER 17, 2024
For an update on the 2025 E-rate, register for an eSchool News webinar featuring expert insight. Over the years, the program has been modernized to focus support on bringing high-speed broadband to and within schools and libraries.
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Education Superhighway
DECEMBER 16, 2024
An estimated 23% of households that make up the broadband affordability gap are MDU residents. Recognizing this critical gap, Chicago’s Digital Equity Council prioritized connecting MDUs in its latest Neighborhood Broadband Request for Proposals (RFP). This partnership began with our response to an RFI issued in 2022.
eSchool News
MARCH 20, 2023
million Americans who don’t have access to broadband internet. This often stems from the fact that rural areas are less likely to be wired for broadband services, therefore resulting in slower internet speeds. million American employees will be working remotely by 2025.
EdTech Magazine
JULY 25, 2017
By Phil Goldstein Increasingly, tech companies, including Google and Microsoft, see improving internet access for the underserved as part of their corporate social responsibility.
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.”
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Broadband penetration in K-12 schools reached over 98 percent , while low-cost computing devices like Chromebooks have proliferated in classrooms. HolonIQ estimates that global spending on digital education tools surpassed $150 billion last year, and will double by 2025. Schools spent a decade buying technology.
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