ROADBAND AND STUDENT PERFORMANCE GAPS

 https://quello.msu.edu/broadbandgap/

Background & Motivation

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Broadband and Student Performance Gaps is the result of a project designed to understand the repercussions of poor or no home Internet access on student performance and the associated costs to society. The Quello Center at Michigan State University (MSU) and Merit Network, in December 2018, brought together the K12 Citizen Science Working Group, a small group of stakeholders from Michigan school districts. From this group, three Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) volunteered to work with the Quello Center and Merit Network to develop and pilot an approach to measure rates of home connectivity among their students and explore the relationship between connectivity and student performance.

53% of Americans Say the Internet Has Been Essential During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Americans with lower incomes are particularly likely to have concerns related to the digital divide and the digital “homework gap”

BY EMILY A. VOGELS, ANDREW PERRIN, LEE RAINIE AND MONICA ANDERSON

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/04/30/53-of-americans-say-the-internet-has-been-essential-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/

Why rural Americans are having a hard time working from home

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN

Updated 1214 GMT (2014 HKT) April 29, 2020

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/29/us/rural-broadband-access-coronavirus-trnd/index.html