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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

According to a 2021 report from the think tank New America, 1 in 8 children from low-income families don’t have a computer at home, while 1 in 7 lack access to broadband internet. The campaign was able to bring in big donors like Twitter’s co-founder and then CEO Jack Dorsey, who pledged $10 million to help meet the goal.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

I meet with teachers twice a week, and every day I push in a class or pull kids out depending on what they’re doing in class. We have horrible broadband, horrible cell service. The state of Virginia just launched the Virginia Growth Assessment, it’s the fall baseline assessment; the scores are truly heartbreaking.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Eastwood often fondly recalls when Middletown High School’s newly renovated stadium hosted a regional track meet. It helps the teachers differentiate the instruction to meet the child’s needs.”. That’s why Middletown is investing as much in professional learning for teachers as it is in devices and broadband.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Eastwood often fondly recalls when Middletown High School’s newly renovated stadium hosted a regional track meet. It helps the teachers differentiate the instruction to meet the child’s needs.” That’s why Middletown is investing as much in professional learning for teachers as it is in devices and broadband.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. broadband privacy rules.” ” From August: “ Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people.” ” From October : “FCC Delays, Denials Foil Rural Schools’ Broadband Plans.”

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