by Leila Meyer, THE Journal
In 2013, President Obama launched the ConnectED initiative with the goal of connecting 99 percent of K-12 students in America with access to broadband Internet in the classroom by the year 2018. As of 2014, nearly one quarter of American households still did not have Internet access, according to a March 2016 Issue Brief from the Council of Economic Advisers . Low-income households are far less likely to have Internet, “with just under half of households in the bottom income quintile using the Internet at home, compared to 95 percent of households in the top quintile,” according to the report.
https://thejournal.com/articles/2016/07/28/home-connectivity-and-the-homework-gap.aspx
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