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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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

The goal of the partnership is to help transform the future of education by: Connecting the unconnected students and communities with high-quality wireless Internet and Close the Digital Divide once and for all. Many school districts aspire to provide adequate off-campus broadband access to their staff and students.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

To support digital inclusion, Kajeet will provide one year of free internet connectivity hardware and patented Kajeet® managed service to equity-focused organizations. Guided by the belief that internet access has become a basic human right, Kajeet’s 2021 Digital Inclusion Grant seeks to support an equitable future for all individuals.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

(PRWEB) JANUARY 13, 2022 — Kajeet® , a leading provider of IoT connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver safe, reliable and controlled internet connectivity to nearly 3,000 customers, today announced the launch of its 2022 Homework Gap Grant Program. An estimated 12 million students in the U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2021

. – April 21, 2021 – Kajeet ®, a leading provider of mobile IoT connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver safe, reliable and controlled internet connectivity to students, enterprises, state and local governments and IoT solution providers, announced today its global expansion into the U.K. In the U.K.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As high-speed internet service becomes more ubiquitous in American households, some readers might be surprised to find out that a “digital divide” exists in many of our schools. It may not be unusual, but it is unacceptable that these realities are allowed to hurt students.”. The reason comes down to economics.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

How to Protect K–12 Networks From Student Hackers. It’s no secret that school districts are a gold mine for hackers, who can exploit all of the confidential student, parent and employee data available for financial gain or to assuage a personal grudge. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 02/20/2019 - 12:35.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Chief among those concerns are the mental and physical health of both teachers and students and enforcing social distancing practices. State and local governments will be the major influencers about when schools reopen and teachers and students return to the classroom — and many are starting early.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2022

8, 2022 — Kajeet ®, a leading provider of IoT connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver safe, reliable and controlled internet connectivity to nearly 3,000 customers, today announced the appointment of Chris Felix to the newly created role of vice president of sales within its education business. MCLEAN, VA. —

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2024

Like Jacob, many students with disabilities are forced to work extra, advocates argue. They have to learn just like other students, but they can also have to deal with assignments they can’t access and other digital hurdles. Some disability advocates say they appreciate that the Justice Department shifted the burden away from students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

I need to create programs for students that will help educate them in their own culture and their own way. Ethnicity, diversity–all students need to learn how each culture is different. To me, [DEI] is educating myself and our team, but also educating teachers, staff, and students. AR: [One of the U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

I need to create programs for students that will help educate them in their own culture and their own way. Ethnicity, diversity–all students need to learn how each culture is different. To me, [DEI] is educating myself and our team, but also educating teachers, staff, and students. AR: [One of the U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

Private 5G For All The pandemic has demonstrated the importance of everyone having a broadband internet connection. However, there are still nearly 30 million Americans that lack access to a fast and reliable internet connection to support distance learning, remote work, and telehealth.

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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. Thus, there is a homework gap—the problem created when students who use digital learning in class can’t get online at home to finish up their schoolwork.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

October 1, 2021– Kajeet ® , a leading provider of wireless connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver safe and controlled internet access, today announced it has expanded its relationship with UScellular , making it the first carrier enabled to sell Kajeet’s solutions directly. About Kajeet.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2021

30,000 students from 175 schools in 27 states have experienced the immersive demonstration powered by the new optical fiber connectivity. The 411-year-old staple in American history now has high-speed, optical fiber internet, enhancing the visitor experience – both on-site and virtually. ATLANTA and JAMESTOWN, Va.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students. percent of homes don’t have internet subscriptions.) Census Bureau. (In

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2020

school district, which had sensitive information about students and staff released by a hacker after the district refused to pay a ransom. I had some hypotheses that with more schools being connected to the internet, they would be exposed to these incidents. Among the victims: Clark County School District, the fifth-largest U.S.

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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. Let’s start with the student factor.

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Priceless Ponderings

APRIL 14, 2025

A 2nd-grade social studies teacher should introduce students to key concepts that help them understand their place in the world. Students explore holidays like Veterans Day, Memorial Day, and Independence Day, and discover why they matter. Government & Citizenship What makes a good citizen ? Lets break it down!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

More than two years ago, educators around the country began to engage in dialogue regarding the digital divide , as they recognized the reality that many students did not have access and connectivity as once believed. percent) without permanent, fixed internet connection at home. million Michigan households (31.5

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Schools are reopened, and students have resumed in-person learning. Yet millions of students live in households without an internet connection. 31, 2021, and of those who have, over 90 percent of them already had internet. “It We need state and local governments to step up, and state and local governments are stepping up.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2023

Chheng Tang, a parent of three teenage students and one preteen, has found the free internet she gets through her school both relieving and, in a way, unsettling. For a number of years, she’s relied on discount options for broadband so that her own family can connect to the internet. Before that, she worked in special education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The reality is that these two stories come from conversations and interviews with educators, caregivers and students in the United States from the Southwest to the East Coast with statistics that back up these personal narratives. Three students exploring Endless OS installed on Endless Mini, Mexico How do we change the narrative?

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

About the student aid functions. The department has you think about Pell Grant, student loans, things like that. And discovering even district administrators themselves, not realizing that within their own districts there were a lot of students that didn’t have access to the Internet from home. You got it.

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