blog post Video: A Conversation with California’s Legislative Leadership By Mary Severance Feb 3, 2023 3 days ago ... “I'm looking forward to the rural areas of my district having access to broadband.” For her part, Atkins acknowledged that there are limits to ...
blog post Commentary: How Rural Schools Survived the Pandemic By Niu Gao Oct 12, 2022 Oct 6, 2022 ... This is especially true in rural areas, whose remote location, lower population density, higher poverty rates, and limited access to internet ...
blog post After COVID, Community Colleges Must Focus on Improving Online Courses By Daniel Payares-Montoya Aug 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022 ... Pre-pandemic, community college enrollment in online courses was already on the rise. Between 2001, when internet-based courses were first ...
Fact Sheet The Digital Divide in Education By Darriya Starr, Joseph Hayes, Niu Gao Jun 15, 2022 Several school districts and counties launched local initiatives before and during the pandemic to provide their students with internet access, including ...
Fact Sheet California’s Digital Divide By Joseph Hayes, Niu Gao, Darriya Starr Jun 15, 2022 Experimental data from the 2020 ACS show that 85% had high-speed internet (or broadband) and 94% of Californian households had internet access—of any kind, ...
blog post How Has California Narrowed Its K–12 Digital Divide? By Niu Gao, Joseph Hayes, Darriya Starr Apr 5, 2022 Apr 5, 2022 ... The gaps in reliable access to the internet and digital devices that have long contributed to educational inequities were even more evident ...
blog post Helping K–12 Students Recover from the Pandemic By Laura Hill, Niu Gao, Julien Lafortune Mar 10, 2022 Mar 10, 2022 ... Device access increased relatively quickly, but despite the distributions of devices such as hot spots challenges with internet access ...
blog post Building a Community-Owned Broadband Network in Imperial County By Joseph Hayes, Mary Severance, Niu Gao Jan 28, 2022 Jan 28, 2022 ... In 2018, ICOE launched BorderLink, a collaborative effort to narrow the “homework gap” by expanding affordable access to reliable Internet ...
blog post Commentary: Narrowing the Digital Divide with Pandemic Benefits By Joseph Hayes, Darriya Starr, Niu Gao Jan 4, 2022 Jan 4, 2022 ... Many California households struggle to afford broadband internet, especially in low-income communities and communities of color.
blog post Video: Achieving Digital Equity for California’s Students By Vicki Hsieh Nov 4, 2021 Nov 4, 2021 ... For many areas of the state, the lack of broadband “cannot be solved ... In rural Imperial County, many families have internet access, ...