blog post Testimony: Assessing the Pandemic’s Effects on Student Learning, Absenteeism, and Graduation By Iwunze Ugo Mar 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 ... ... the pandemic on chronic absenteeism and high school graduation rates. ... access to the computing devices and high-speed internet needed ...
Policy Brief Policy Brief: COVID-19 Emergency Funding and California’s Higher Education Systems By Jacob Jackson, Kevin Cook, Darriya Starr, Chansonette Buck Nov 16, 2022 Just before the pandemic hit, state funding for higher education was high and ... Those without stable home addresses and/or internet connections were most ...
Report COVID-19 Emergency Funding and California’s Higher Education Systems By Jacob Jackson, Kevin Cook, Darriya Starr Nov 16, 2022 Many—in particular low-income—students lacked access to the devices and ... Multiple campuses found that reliable, high-speed internet connectivity was the ...
blog post Commentary: How Rural Schools Survived the Pandemic By Niu Gao Oct 12, 2022 Oct 6, 2022 ... In 2017, 74% of California households had access to broadband, with access slightly lower—70%—among rural households. But this gap grew markedly ...
blog post After COVID, Community Colleges Must Focus on Improving Online Courses By Daniel Payares-Montoya Aug 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022 ... Similarly, ensuring that all faculty and students have access to resources like broadband internet and computing devices, and that students ...
Report The Impact of COVID-19 on Science Education By Niu Gao, Kathy DiRanna, Maria T. Chang Fay Jun 21, 2022 Only 27 percent of the districts we surveyed made science a high priority in their ... Because of reduced access to science labs, 45 percent of teachers ...
Fact Sheet The Digital Divide in Education By Darriya Starr, Joseph Hayes, Niu Gao Jun 15, 2022 Broadband access was lower among low-income (57%), Black (61%), Latino (67%) K–12 households and those headed by non–college graduates (67%).
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 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 ... The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the need for universal broadband access. Without reliable high-speed internet, it is difficult for ...