Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And one, Mississippi, has made important strides in closing the digital divide through a pandemic response plan that took each school district’s unique needs and challenges into account. It is worth remembering that the digital divide is not an all or nothing phenomenon.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic laid bare the ongoing digital divide in the United States, in cities and in rural America. Students and their families, impacted by the necessary shift to remote learning, perhaps felt the repercussions of the divide most directly. In July, Gov.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The plan separates technological divides — barriers that block some students from full participation — into access, design and use. Ultimately, some hope this plan will move the conversation beyond what access students have to tech and toward discussion about how effective that tech actually is in learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

More than 21,000 applicants and 3,700 vendors participate in the E-rate program, emphasizing its vital role in providing internet access for U.S. This program ensures schools can access vital technology for student learning. educational institutions. “The E-rate program is crucial for modern education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

Proponents of digital learning, as well as those committed to closing the nation's “homework gap,” rejoiced on Thursday when the U.S. Senate introduced a bill that would invest hundreds of millions of dollars to expand broadband access in communities that currently lack it. The same holds for U.S. It's good stuff.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 4, 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. Now, however, access to technology is becoming a rights issue. Source: LEE RAINIE ).

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Access to high-speed internet is necessary for participating in today’s digital economy. Yet millions of residents in multi-dwelling units nationwide lack reliable connectivity, which hinders their ability to work, learn, and access essential services. States Leading the Way in MDU Connectivity Across the U.S.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The broadband gap isn’t only a problem for remote learning. That Broadband Gap Bar? schools had high-speed broadband connections. A different nonprofit, Connected Nation, has picked up EducationSuperHighway’s broadband baton. Early childhood” videos on YouTube nearly all have advertising. All in this Edtech Reports Recap.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

It allows anyone with broadband access to become a student for life, opening new education and career opportunities. If left unaddressed, this digital education divide will widen, and millions of Americans will be left behind without the skills they need to succeed in our fast-evolving and ever more competitive economy.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Although digital technologies hold great promise in the realm of education, access remains limited for many communities worldwide. One such company, Information Equity Initiative (IEI), is working to bridge the digital divide so that all students have access to educational information. Can you explain that?

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2024

This post on mobile and broadband speeds originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. These new standards will be used to determine if broadband is being deployed in a reasonable and timely manner. It offers portability but may have lower speeds and higher latency compared to fixed broadband.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In July, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the use of E-rate funds to loan Wi-Fi hotspots that support students, school staff, and library patrons without internet access. The federal E-rate program provides discounts to help schools and libraries obtain affordable telecommunications and internet access.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Though about 12 million students in this country still lack any internet access at all—a problem cast into relief during the pandemic—there is good news: That number is steadily shrinking. Multiple studies and surveys have documented the ever-narrowing digital divide. We’re going to miss this huge number—millions—of families.”

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 7, 2016

When I was an Instructional Technology Director one of the challenges I faced was working to ensure that students, no matter where they lived in my district, had access to the same tools and opportunities. I could provide technology that could be used in the schools, and provided high speed network access while they were in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

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. Schools get creative. Some solutions have been proposed.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2021

Over time, internet access has shifted from an amenity to a necessity. But for the millions of students and families without internet access at home, adapting to the virtual classroom became extremely challenging, if not impossible. was especially concerned about internet accessibility, and she wasn’t alone.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 14, 2025

Access to affordable and reliable internet has become an essential utility, yet millions of affordable housing residents remain unconnected. Committed to fostering digital equity across the state, Massachusetts has embarked on groundbreaking efforts to bridge the digital divide in public and affordable housing.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Titled Mind the Gap: Closing the Digital Divide through affordability, access, and adoption , the report from Connected Nation (CN), with support from AT&T, provides new insights into why more than 30 million eligible households are not opting to access internet service at home or leverage the ACP. However, 82.4

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 24, 2017

Additionally, only 55% of rural America has broadband access versus 94% of urban America. This digital divide and poverty create unique challenges. ” In today’s show, we’ll discuss: Promoting more broadband access. Rural Broadband Stats: [link]. as an advocate for Rural Broadband.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Most of these households, he said, “have infrastructure available at their home but they just can’t afford to sign up for a broadband service.” Only a third of those without broadband access blame a lack of infrastructure; the remaining two thirds without access say they can’t afford it, Marwell said.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2021

As Americans close out one year of pandemic-related school disruption and head into a second, the digital divide remains a daunting challenge for K-12 public school systems in most states.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 17, 2021

It has a vital role in providing access to quality education on a more permanent basis. While there are video and audio tools that help bridge the physical distance, your communications strategy needs to include cognizance of the digital divide and your students’ access to these tools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Local leaders must play a critical role in closing the digital divide for 18 million American households that have access to the internet but can’t afford to connect, according to a new report. The urgent prompt comes from EducationSuperHighway, a national nonprofit with a mission to close the broadband affordability gap.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As online schooling plays an increasingly large role in education, researchers say more work needs to be done to understand and address why some families have a harder time accessing the internet. What no one talks enough about is that “we have a digital divide right within suburban and urban areas as well,” he said.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This funding, which was crucial in bridging the digital divide, now stands at a crossroads, potentially leaving many educational institutions grappling with outdated technology and hindering access to the digital resources necessary for effective learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

EducationSuperHighway created a tool to help schools identify students without internet access at home and, in the process, learned a lot more about the digital divide. Its plan for reaching that goal is outlined in a new report “No Home Left Offline: Bridging the Broadband Affordability Gap.” million U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, like many of the nation’s public school systems, is seeing increases in student poverty rates and English language proficiency — trends that could make any existing digital divides worse. But Parkland school leaders are taking proactive steps to improve digital equity.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

It provoked an outcry among education groups, who argued that the decision would be reduce home internet access for students in rural areas—thereby widening the homework gap. Broadband policy is dense, and many of the articles and statements on the subject are frankly hard to follow. radio, TV, mobile data, broadband.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

Before the pandemic, we knew there was a digital divide in America. The need to close the divide can no longer be ignored because students of all ages are locked out from school – not just because of the virus itself, but from lack of an internet connection at home. Enter COVID-19. Back in 2017, the U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Key points: Schools must ensure greater access to the tech tools students and teachers need The digital divide still holds students back DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable For more news on classroom equity, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Believing that all students have the same access to technology is a mistake.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

Last year, my predecessor, Karen Cator outlined ways in which we can finally close the Digital Learning Gap. We hope to share these best practices and inform the work of many more school systems, as well as the work of state chiefs of education and governors as they plan to use unprecedented federal funding to close the digital divide.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

However, the study also found that educators lack centralized resources and direct support necessary to successfully overcome barriers to the digital divide. Data shows multiple disconnects between what parents pointed to as actual barriers to broadband adoption versus what teachers perceived as parents’ barriers to adoption.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

COVID-19 did not create the digital divide for students, added Robin Lake, the panel moderator and the director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), which is based out of the University of Washington and has been tracking school districts’ transitions to distance learning.

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Neo LMS

JULY 12, 2018

A counterpoint to these figures, is also the finding that 70% of teachers assign homework requiring broadband access. 4 Examples of the best digital access initiatives. Between September 2016 and May 2017 the program donated 1,600 computers and 870 4G mobile hotspots to low-income families in Denver, Colorado. EveryoneOn.

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