Educators Face Expanding Need For Broadband

Education Week (3/12, Davis) reports on efforts to upgrade wireless bandwidth ad Indiana's Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation, where connection "to the Internet faltered repeatedly last school year. ... Teachers across the country want to personalize learning through technology, districts are putting 1-to-1 computing initiatives in place, tablet devices are flooding into classrooms, and the 2014-15 deadline for online testing under the Common Core State Standards is drawing near. But none of those approaches or plans is possible without high-speed broadband connections." The article notes that FCC has made universal broadband connections a priority, and discusses the infrastructure issues schools face in trying to expand broadband access.