A Final Frontier of the Digital Divide: Getting Wi-Fi to the Most Remote Areas
A new approach to providing broadband through satellites gives reliable internet access to far-flung communities including a Texas school district. by
Marquita Brown is the managing editor of EdTech: Focus on K-12. Before joining EdTech, she was a program manager for the nonprofit Education Writers Association. She also worked as a reporter for 10 years, primarily covering K-12 education for daily newspapers in Mississippi, Virginia and North Carolina.
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When leaders of Ector County Independent School District learned in March that 39 percent of their students lacked reliable broadband access at home, they went to work on finding a solution. It was crucial that students be able to connect to remote instruction.