Broadband Information Gap

We estimate that 80% of K-12 public schools in the US do not have sufficient Internet infrastructure for digital learning. Unfortunately, we don't know where these schools are, how many students they serve, or what sort of connections and hardware they are using to connect to the Internet. The question of Where, Who, and What is what we call The Broadband Information Gap.

The Broadband Information Gap prevents us from developing evidence-based goals and plans to upgrade every one of America’s schools to 100 Mbps+. In fact, it is the primary impediment to finding ways to maximize the impact of current technology spending in schools.

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Our Solution: The National Broadband Inventory

In September 2012, EducationSuperHighway launched the National SchoolSpeedTest in conjunction with the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Department of Education, and leaders in online education to take a school by school inventory of the Internet infrastructure that currently exists in America's K-12 schools.

Want to know more about how EducationSuperHighway and the SchoolSpeedTest are leading the way in upgrade? Check out our National K-12 Broadband Inventory plans.

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