U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) is urging prominent tech companies to help ensure that Virginia students can properly participate in distance learning this fall. “While the CARES Act provided ...

Learning is mobile–but how can schools provide reliable high-speed internet for students who need devices at home, but who lack connectivity? In July, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ...

When Xerox CEO Ursula Burns steps down from her position later this year, it will mark the end of having an African-American woman leading a Fortune 500 company as its chief executive officer. Burns, ...

And the homework gap in many ways mirrors broader educational barriers for poor and minority students. Students without internet at home are more likely to be students of color, from low-income ...

One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic was that many families didn’t have reliable internet access at home. As schools closed and classes moved online, educators rushed to improvise solutions for ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is weighing proposals to end funding for Wi-Fi on school buses and library hot spots, two pandemic-era programs designed to extend Internet access to ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) committed more than $266 million for two additional rounds of support through the Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) as part of the bipartisan American ...

Washington, D.C., Nov. 29, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National AfterSchool Association (NAA) has received a $500,000 grant from Google to support the integration of technology into afterschool ...

In what has become known as the homework gap, an estimated 17% of U.S. students do not have access to computers at home and 18% do not have home access to broadband internet, according to an ...