Digital Divide
Education news, analysis, and opinion about the inequities in students’ access to technology and their effect
Special Education
Serving Special Needs Students During COVID-19: A Rural Educator's Story
Just because a rural school system has internet doesn’t mean everyone can afford it. That’s why James Barrett delivers paper work packets, along with meals, to his students during the COVID-19 crisis.
Classroom Technology
How Schools Can Narrow Equity Gaps During the Coronavirus Pandemic
The guide urges districts to develop plans for addressing the loss of learning that many students, particularly those in vulnerable demographic groups, are experiencing this spring.
Ed-Tech Policy
Ed-Tech Groups to Congress: More Than $5 Billion Needed to Address Internet Access Gaps
Schools need help from the federal government to prepare millions of U.S. students for remote learning this fall and beyond.
Teaching & Learning
Photos
Struggling to Stay Connected on Maryland’s Eastern Shore as Teaching Moves Online
As teachers grapple with remote learning, a teacher on Maryland’s Eastern Shore faces the added challenge of a lack of home internet access.
Classroom Technology
Teachers Without Internet Work in Parking Lots, Empty School Buildings During COVID-19
While most teachers have online access at home, internet service for many educators in rural areas is spotty, expensive, or nonexistent.
Classroom Technology
Delivery Delays Likely for Chromebooks, iPads Under COVID-19, Analyst Predicts
Analyst predicts that a frustrating stretch could continue for district officials desperate to acquire devices such as Chromebooks and iPads during coronavirus closures.
Ed-Tech Policy
5 Insights for How to Tackle the Digital Divide During the Coronavirus and Beyond
Districts are scrambling to purchase new equipment and help families connect to the internet, all while waiting on policy changes for broader relief.
Classroom Technology
From Our Research Center
The Disparities in Remote Learning Under Coronavirus (in Charts)
As it's done with the country's health-care system, economy, and social safety net, the pandemic is exposing and exacerbating the deep inequities that have long shaped American public education.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
COVID-19 Is Exposing the Gaps in Our Education System. Let's Start Fixing Them
The coronavirus crisis is a powerful opportunity to reassess public education, write John Bridgeland and Robert Balfanz.
Classroom Technology
States' E-Learning Directives Pivot for the Long Haul
States are adjusting the policies and strategies designed for short- term remote instruction—like snow day plans—to support students for the rest of the school year.
Families & the Community
Opinion
When Schools Close, Vulnerable Families Are Left in the Dark
Schools are missing the digital contact information for far too many families. That's suddenly an urgent problem, write researchers Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink.
School & District Management
When Schools Shut Down, We All Lose
Due to the coronavirus, America is facing a historic school shutdown, deepening learning divides & taking away the centers of communities.
School & District Management
From Our Research Center
It's Not Just a 'Digital Divide': Survey Shows Variations in Districts' Coronavirus Response
Whether it's cleaning facilities or communicating with the community, our survey shows wide variation in districts' capacity to respond to the coronavirus outbreak.
School & District Management
Why Tech Isn't Transforming Teaching: 10 Key Stories From Education Week
Crave pragmatic, honest, clear-eyed conversation about the realities of ed tech? Here's a reading list from Education Week, as presented at ISTE 2019.