December 10, 2019
Is your school or school district budget being spent wisely? You’ve paid for students to have a 1:1 take-home device and you’ve paid for the necessary online tools your students need to learn and succ...
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According to Education Week, there are an estimated five million English-language learners in America’s public school system. And when it comes to the K-12 student population, these English-as-a-Secon...
Read More →February 22, 2019
The Homework Gap. The Digital Divide. Whichever term you use, they both point to the same problem: students without Internet at home face additional barriers to completing their schoolwork, have lower...
Read More →December 10, 2018
There’s good news for rural school districts. According to the education nonprofit organization EducationSuperHighway, 96 percent of public schools in the U.S. (an estimated 44 million students) have ...
Read More →October 1, 2018
Educational technology—how we use it now, how we’ll use it in the future—is of paramount importance to any discussion of education. Teachers, students, administrators, and other key stakeholders in Ca...
Read More →September 19, 2018
It was recently announced that the state of Arizona is using $38 million of the $57 million they received from the Volkswagen (VW) settlement to repower or replace old school buses. School Bus Fleet r...
Read More →September 18, 2018
Kajeet is proud to announce the winners of the second annual Homework Gap Grant. Each applicant offered an inspiring story about how Kajeet can help their students succeed with filtered and managed mo...
Read More →July 17, 2018
Kajeet has officially opened our 2018 Homework Gap Grant! In 2018, Kajeet will be awarding 15 Homework Gap Grants to school districts in need of providing safe, filtered Internet solutions to connect ...
Read More →July 11, 2018
In recent years, there have been amazing strides to close the Homework Gap that exists between school-age students who have broadband Internet access and those who do not. Recent successes, however, d...
Read More →June 6, 2018
It’s June, and for thousands of educators that means the end of school, but it also signals another year of International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)! This year’s ISTE conference will b...
Read More →March 7, 2018
Student success and academic achievement are the goals for any state public education system. As California districts prepare and update their Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs), it’s crit...
Read More →November 13, 2017
In rural America, 39 percent of households do not have access to high-speed Internet, which equates to 23 million people, according to the FCC 2016 Broadband Progress Report. Urban areas experience mu...
Read More →October 31, 2017
While 98 percent of U.S. kids live in a household that has some form of a mobile device, the Homework Gap is still scarily present in schools across the nation. According to a recent report on childre...
Read More →October 11, 2017
The State of Wisconsin approved funds to expand broadband Internet for students outside the classroom through the Information Technology Infrastructure Grant. The funding application is now live and a...
Read More →September 22, 2017
Think of everything that goes into a college application. Transcripts. Personal essays. Teacher recommendations. Standardized test scores. Application fees. In the past, these and other materials woul...
Read More →August 31, 2017
The Kajeet team was wowed by the staggering number of submissions we received that portray a very visible Homework Gap occurring across the country. With so many compelling stories, we had a difficult...
Read More →July 24, 2017
The Homework Gap Grant is now closed. Thank you to all those that submitted applications. We are currently reviewing entries and will notify winners by August 31, 2017. The Homework Gap The use of onl...
Read More →June 8, 2017
Advanced Placement (AP) courses provide high school students a more challenging environment and an opportunity to take on college-level work, with the potential to earn college course credit. Accordin...
Read More →April 18, 2017
Five million households with school-age children do not have broadband access. This Pew Research Center statistic is frequently discussed in the education world and is something that impacts every sta...
Read More →March 13, 2017
Hello, Wisconsin! The Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association (WEMTA) is hosting their annual conference March 19th - 21st at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells. Over 1,000 educat...
Read More →September 26, 2016
More than just Internet. Four simple words that, for us here at Kajeet, sum up our mission and our goals. These words are also a brand promise from us to you: that with our safe, mobile broadband acce...
Read More →September 23, 2016
When a student succeeds in school, success for one student may look differently than success for another. Making an ‘A’ on a history test, passing Chemistry class, being accepted at a university, rece...
Read More →August 19, 2016
The state of Minnesota is taking a big leap forward to help close the Homework Gap in their state. Paving the way for other states to follow their lead, the North Star State announced a grant intended...
Read More →April 11, 2016
As districts work to close the Homework Gap, each district has its own strategy based on free-and-reduced-cost lunch numbers, geographic size and culture. For districts that are providing Wi-Fi on sch...
Read More →April 4, 2016
As more districts adopt 1:1 programs and digital policies, many students will be left without Internet access at home. (Photo: Colorstock) Last week, the FCC voted to update the Lifeline program to in...
Read More →February 23, 2016
ENGLISH 106 VIA FLICKR CC 2.0 LICENSE An excerpt from the CoSN Digital Equity Toolkit. A digital equity solution that provides a student with precisely what he or she needs in order to complete homewo...
Read More →September 29, 2015
Originally posted in eschoolnews. By Robert Dillon, Affton School District The achievement gap. The literacy gap. The nutrition gap. The preschool gap. It seems like our education system talks and tal...
Read More →June 11, 2015
On average, 30 percent of students nationwide lack home Internet access, and in some districts, that number is as high as 80 percent. Do you know what your numbers are? Survey your students to find ou...
Read More →June 8, 2015
Evidence shows that students can lose up to two months of math and reading progress during the “Summer Slide” and if the student is from a low-income household, the potential for more learning loss is...
Read More →June 3, 2015
Year-End Funds Can Be Used to Pilot Kajeet SmartSpot® Program With most school district’s fiscal year-end coming up on June 30th, there is still a window of opportunity left to make purchases for your...
Read More →November 21, 2014
With standardized testing moving away from the fill-in-the-bubble tests of old to new, computerized testing for students, what impact will this have on technology-disadvantaged kids? Both the new SBAC...
Read More →November 12, 2014
Today's teachers know that integrating technology into the classroom helps to engage and motivate students to learn. But what about after school? An average of 30% of U.S. students do not have adequat...
Read More →October 22, 2014
Earlier this month, the U.S. Secretary of Education put the full weight of Washington on the trail of states, schools, and districts that are not providing adequate educational resources to every stud...
Read More →June 9, 2014
CoSN (Consortium for School Networking) and the National Title I Association (NASTID) released a new toolkit to strengthen the critical relationship between District Title I and education technology l...
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