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About 193,000 New Jersey schoolchildren needed computers or internet access for remote learning as of last month, a problem one state senator said was created… Read More »School has started, and NJ doesn’t know how many kids are caught in digital divide

Endless pop-up ads siphon off data paid for with federal subsidies in the Lifeline program, researchers found.

Bill Creating Commission to Study Feasibility of Community Broadband Networks in New Jersey Passes Full Assembly

Emergency shipments of more than 9,000 Chromebooks over the past days will allow the Paterson school district to provide every student with an electronic device… Read More »Emergency purchase ensures every Paterson student will have a Chromebook for school

A discussion on policy solutions to digital redlining and other connectivity barriers in marginalized communities during the pandemic.

With millions of kids home from school and parents juggling childcare and working from home, many families are finding they don’t have enough computers to… Read More »How to Revive an Old Computer for Your Kid—or Decide on a New One

Before the pandemic, it was called “the homework gap,” because of the growing number of teachers who assigned homework that required Internet access. Now, as… Read More »‘A national crisis’: As coronavirus forces many schools online this fall, millions of disconnected students are being left behind

Here are the questions to ask — and mistakes to avoid — for a year when school happens on a laptop

Like scores of other students this spring, Halimah Herbert’s graduation ceremony from Newark Tech High School was virtual. That was disappointing enough, but Herbert said… Read More »As more N.J. schools go virtual in the fall, 230K students are stuck in the ‘digital divide’