In this blog, EducationSuperHighway provides three tips for making technology plans for the classroom: set intentional goals, know your options, and bring community members to the table.

This blog by EducationSuperHighway explores the importance of planning for future bandwidth needs when working to improve school connectivity. The resource provides three essential tips for technology planning for school leaders to keep in mind.

In this interview, EducationSuperHighway speaks with Jennifer Bergland, an educator with a passion for policy about how she was able to increase funding for technology in local schools and became the Director of Governmental Relations at Texas Computer Education Association. Jennifer Bergland offers advocacy advice for CIOS, technology leaders, and educators who want to increase funding for technology in schools.

In this blog, EducactionSuperHighway describes how Polar Communications worked with local school districts for deliver broadband to North Dakota students in need during the Covid-19 pandemic. This blog also provides recommendations on how to work with local telecommunications companies to build solutions for students and schools.

In this blog, EducationSuperHighway describes how Premier Communications reached out to local schools to identify and connect families who were without broadband during the Covid-19 pandemic.

EducationSuperHighway outlines ten tips for getting the best price and contract terms from a vendor when receiving responses to an RFP.

This blog by EducationSuperHighway details how Prince William County Public Schools successfully sought out support to aid in upgrading their bandwidth in order to provide internet access to current students and prepare for future scaling projects.

This blog from EducationSuperHighway describes how North Dakota built off the previous work of a state fiber-optic network co-op initiative from the 1990s to provide connectivity to students during the Covid-19 pandemic. The blog details how multiple state agencies collaborated to identify which homes and areas needed service and connectivity. This case demonstrates how crucial the state can be in bridging the home access gap.

This blog from EducationSuperHighway details how the Clark County School District addressed digital challenges faced by students at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic by partnering with local ISPs, coordinating outreach, and providing extensive support to families.

This blog from EducationSuperHighway details how the City of Chicago and Chicago Public Schools formed public-private partnerships with local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to offer "sponsored service," paying directly for internet service for in-need families, to ensure students were able to access the digital classroom for remote learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. The resource provides data displays to show the increase in student connectivity from 2015 and which school districts across America are meeting the 1 Mbps per student standard.

This resource estimates the cost of deploying high-speed fiber to all community anchor institutions that lack an adequate connection. The paper supports the idea that deploying high-capacity broadband “to and through” community anchor institutions to the surrounding community can be a cost-effective strategy to solve the digital divide for millions of Americans, especially those in rural areas.

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This report is the third in a series about the digital divide for students and teachers. It aims to provide a more granular understanding of the digital divide for students amid distance learning and the pandemic and offers a set of policy recommendations at the federal, state, and local levels to permanently close the digital divide.

This report provides key findings regarding America's K-12 "homework gap." The analysis of new data illustrates how the digital divide affects every state and every type of community, but the divide is more pronounced in rural communities and for Latinx, Black, and Native American households. The report offers an estimate between $6 billion to $11 billion to adequately address and close the digital divide for K-12 public school students in one year.

This report highlights case studies at the state, city, and school district level to provide steps to address and close the digital divide. The three key steps are to assess who needs connectivity and devices and where they live, determine which devices and connectivity options are desirable and available, and find the money to pay for it all. The report details how the best solutions relied on high-level communications and collaboration among all stakeholders.

This data display depicts how the digital divide for students is a major problem across all 50 states. Students in rural geographies have the highest rate of inadequate connectivity; Latinx, Black, and Native American students also have the high rates of inadequate connectivity.