One in 5 urban teachers say most of their students don’t have the home access to the internet necessary to do assignments outside of class, finds a new teacher survey by the nonprofit Common Sense ...

A new program will provide money for computers and hot spots to nine rural counties to help kids who don't have internet access get their homework done. Keion Parker, 14, seems used to the reaction he ...

In less than a year of remote schooling, our students fell six months behind where they should be. For students of color and those in low-income households, the deficit is even greater. Much of the ...

In decades past, students needed little more than paper, pencils, and time to get their schoolwork done. For the vast majority of students, that's no longer the case. Most schoolwork these days ...

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H. Richard Milner IV is the Helen Faison professor of urban education at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of "Start Where You Are, but Don’t Stay There: Understanding Diversity, ...

The lack of access to technology and internet connectivity at home is especially severe among poor, rural, and minority students, according to a new survey from ACT that sheds light on the vast ...

School kids in rural Michigan who have less-than-adequate internet connections at home could get some homework done on the bus if Microsoft gets FCC approval for an experiment it wants to try. The ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. When schools ...

The FCC is expected to end a Biden-era rule change that allowed nearly 200,000 schools and libraries to loan out Wi-Fi hotspot devices.