eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

“Universal connectivity is more than just internet access–it’s about addressing the digital divide to ensure every student is prepared for post-secondary success,” said Julia Fallon, executive director at SETDA. ” The report provides specific policy recommendations to close the digital divide in education. .

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2024

It updated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the law that requires state and local governments to supply equal opportunity — including in services like public schools, community colleges and public universities — for people with disabilities. While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Unsurprisingly, these institutions—Claflin University and South Carolina State University—make the internet available to their students and faculty. Higher ed has been paying more attention to this idea since pandemic-era remote learning underscored students’ uneven access to computers and internet.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools. A report published earlier this year from the Institute of Education Sciences, the independent research arm of the U.S. While most schools in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. percent of households don’t have internet subscriptions, according to the 2016 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2020

I had some hypotheses that with more schools being connected to the internet, they would be exposed to these incidents. It’s one thing for schools to protect against mass, general threats … the sort of bad things that can happen when anyone connects any device to the internet. I had no idea this would take off the way it did.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

A few decades ago, when computers were still novelty gadgets and the internet was not available to everyone, schools and other educational institutions had a minimal reliance on technology. Schools, city and local governments , medical offices and large corporations tend to fit the bill.

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