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EducationSuperHighway

http://www.educationsuperhighway.org/

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EducationSuperHighway is a national non-profit with the mission to close the digital divide for the 18 million households that have access to the Internet but can't afford to connect. We focus on America's most unconnected communities, where more than 25% of people don't have Internet.

From 2012-2020 we led the effort that closed the classroom connectivity gap. In 2013, only 10% of students had access to digital learning in their classrooms. Today, thanks to an unprecedented bi-partisan effort by federal, state, and school district leaders, supported by K-12 advocacy organizations, the classroom connectivity gap is closed - 47 million students are connected, and 99.3% of America's schools have a high-speed broadband connection. To learn more, visit our website at www.educationsuperhighway.org.

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Location: United States, California, San Francisco

Employees: 11-50

Phone: +1 415-275-1307

Total raised: $9M

Founded date: 2012

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20.07.2023	A program to bring internet access to low-income people is running out of money. Health care will suffer	This past winter, one of us, Alister, was speaking with the daughter of an elderly patient at a community health center in Boston. Her mother had recently been admitted to a local hospital for pneumonia, and doctors believed that she was an...
20.10.2022	A Playbook for Getting Millions of Unconnected Households Online	Schools are reopened, and students have resumed in-person learning. But some relics of the pandemic are still holding strong, including dependency on digital technology to aid learning. Many teachers, flush with devices and education softwa...
04.11.2021	This Nonprofit Was Ready to Sunset. Now It’s Back — With a New Mission for Student Internet Access.	Two years ago, EducationSuperHighway was getting ready to hang up its proverbial hat. The nonprofit said it had reached its goal of ensuring that 99 percent of U.S. schools were connected to high-speed internet, a boon to digital learning. ...
14.12.2020	EducationSuperHighway Report Outlines Plans to Tackle K-12 Home Connectivity Crisis	SAN FRANCISCO, CA (PRWEB) December 14, 2020 The national non-profit that successfully closed the classroom connectivity gap has announced it is delaying its planned sunset to connect students who lack home broadband. EducationSuperHighway w...
30.11.2020	Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up	The broadband gap isn’t only a problem for remote learning. “Early childhood” videos on YouTube nearly all have advertising. And as video dominates online instruction, more educators need easy-to-use resources for video creation. All in thi...
18.09.2020	Is It Time For The Internet To Be A School-Managed Public Utility?	If onlygetty
23.10.2019	Classroom connectivity gap closes	https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170817_Gamino1_Jason.mp4 In their State of the States report, EducationSuperHighway said they had largely achieved their goal of bringing high-speed broadband connections to...
04.04.2019	Mission (Almost) Accomplished: Nonprofit EducationSuperHighway Prepares to Sunset	It’s the beginning of the end of the road for EducationSuperHighway. After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. classroo...
02.10.2018	Only 28% of Districts Have Enough Bandwidth to Use Digital Learning Every Day	As America’s classrooms become increasingly connected, the nation inches ever closer to reaching a major milestone: 100 percent of schools with high-speed internet access, defined as at least 100 kbps (or 100 thousand bits per second) per s...
17.01.2017	34.9M US Students—88 Percent of School Districts—Now Connected Online	For anyone taking on a project, EducationSuperHighway CEO Evan Marwell has a few words of advice: “If you want to accomplish any goal, you have to measure progress,” he says. ”You can't manage what you can't measure.” The mantra makes sense...
17.01.2017	34.9M US Students—88 Percent of School Districts—Now Connected Online	For anyone taking on a project, EducationSuperHighway CEO Evan Marwell has a few words of advice: “If you want to accomplish any goal, you have to measure progress,” he says. ”You can't manage what you can't measure.” The mantra makes sense...
08.12.2016	Why edtech startups need to build for overlooked communities	Shannon Farley Contributor Shannon Farley is co-founder and executive director at Fast Forward, a tech accelerator for social impact startups. More posts by this contributor Five key lessons from founders who launched social impact startups...
05.10.2016	CommonLit wins $3.9 million grant to help students master reading skills	A tech nonprofit called CommonLit won a $3.89 million grant from the Department of Education to develop software and content that helps students read well enough to graduate from high school and succeed in their careers or college. The gran...
25.11.2015	Can the World’s Beverage King Bring Better Broadband to Brazilian Schools?	A second grade teacher spends part of her weekend planning classes for the coming week. Her students want to learn about numbers and, as she promised, she will let them play with an online game that teach the basics of addition. She makes s...
19.11.2015	Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Chan donate $20M to bring Internet to more U.S. schools	Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan have donated $20 million toward helping get American classrooms better Internet and connecting students to the rest of the world. The couple provided a gift to the Edu...
19.11.2015	Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Chan donate $20M to bring Internet to more U.S. schools	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his ...
11.12.2014	How the IT Department Can Help Make Schools Early Adopters	Online testing is driving a lot of press, but for most districts, it neither challenged the network nor demonstrated how technology can change education. The required bandwidth for the tests created and delivered by SBAC and PARCC earlier t...
05.11.2014	Take It From the Top: Making Superintendents 'Future Ready'	You’ve likely signed a pledge at some point. But have you ever followed through on it? Sometimes, it helps to have a little push. And right now, the U.S. Office of Educational Technology and the Department of Education (DOE) are outlining a...
20.06.2014	Proposed E-Rate Reforms Raise Concerns, Uncertainty	On June 20, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman, Tom Wheeler shared his long-awaited proposal to reform E-rate, the federal program launched in 1996 that subsidizes telecommunication services for schools and libraries. And the ...
28.05.2014	How Much It Will Cost to Connect (Almost) All Schools	How much will it cost to "Keep calm and connect all schools"? Try $3.2 billion. That's how much CoSN (Consortium for School Networking) and the EducationSuperHighway say it will cost to equip and update public K-12 schools' existi...
06.12.2013	EducationSuperHighway Receives $9M Investment	EducationSuperHighway, a San Francisco, CA-based nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing high speed broadband to the nation’s K-12 public schools, received a $9m investment. Backers included Mark Zuckerberg‘s Startup:Education, the Gat...
04.12.2013	Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates Put $9M Into EducationSuperHighway To Improve School Broadband	The digital divide between those who have Internet access and those who do not is often described as an economic or geographical issue, but there is another divide that actually runs across both of those other segmentations: education. Curr...
04.12.2013	Facebook founder is now helping bring high-speed Internet to public schools	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Students require lightning fast Internet to take ...
04.12.2013	EducationSuperHighway raises $9M from Zuckerberg, Gates	Zuckerberg's Startup:Education and The Gates Foundation pump millions into education non-profit Despite the little spat they had last month over what’s more important, connectivity or a malaria vaccine, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have m...
04.12.2013	Facebook founder is now helping bring high-speed Internet to public schools	Students require lightning fast Internet to take advantage of the best electronic learning tools, and schools are under mounting pressure to deliver. According to a nonprofit called EducationSuperhighway, most schools lack fast enough conne...
04.12.2013	Zuckerberg, Gates Put Millions Into EducationSuperHighway	Few people negotiate as energetically to get their money's worth as a billionaire. And so it's fitting that a couple of billionaires are putting their money behind an effort that--at least in part--aims to help schools get full value for th...
14.11.2012	Karen Cator on Department of Education's Next Course	Last week, EdSurge invited Karen Cator, director of education technology for the U.S. Department of Education, to share her post-election thoughts with EdSurge readers here--and she's been responding to those comments. This week, EdSurge's ...
12.09.2012	EducationSuperHighway Launches School Speed Test	ZOOM ZOOM: Your awesome, "revolutionary" tool to save all of education's woes won't mean a lick if students and teachers can't load it in their browsers. That's why today (Wednesday) the EducationSuperHighway is launching its Nati...

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