When the ‘homework gap’ hits home: How rural PA students learn with limited broadband

When many high school students get home, they open their laptops and start  their homework. But Logan Snyder, 17, living in rural Madisonburg, has had to travel to his mom’s office eight miles away to complete assignments. He is one of almost 340,000 Pennsylvania youths without access to a reliable broadband connection, according to 2010 American Community Survey responses through the U.S. Census Bureau. Slow broadband speeds or nonexistent connections restrict these students’ ability to complete assignments or put in extra study time, in what the Federal Communications Commission calls the “homework gap.”
Centre Daily Times, April 10, 2019
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