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Addressing the Homework Gap for Children of Color During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Conversation with FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel
In this episode, we join Jessica Rosenworcel, a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission and one of the nation’s leading advocates for closing the “homework gap,” a particularly cruel part of the digital divide that prevents 12 million children from having access to broadband at home. More than half of the nation’s public-school children – 27 million -- are children of color. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused the closures of schools for more than 40 million kids nationwide, highlights the risk that children of color will not have access to classroom instruction during these extended school closures. Commissioner Rosenworcel discusses the response of companies to the pandemic and makes suggestions for policy and legislative responses to the crisis.
The host for this episode is Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy.
From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.
Discussed in this episode:
National Urban League
ACT
African American
AT&T
Backhaul
Black
Black America
Black Girls Code
Broadband
African American
Carla Hayden
Children of Color
Charter
Comcast
Computers
Congress
Coronavirus
COVID-19
Data Caps
Digital Divide
Digital Economy
Digital Equity
Digital Infrastructure
Diversity
Emergency Power
eRate
FCC
FCC Open Meeting
Homework Gap
Internet
Kimberly Bryant
Last Mile
Library of Congress
Life in the Age of Coronavirus
Low Income
Marc Morial
Media
Mobile Hot Spots
National Plan
Networks
Online
Pandemic
President Trump
Remote Learning Environments
Rural
School Work
SAT
Senators
Stimulus
Title I
T-Mobile
Teachers
Telecommunications Act of 1996
Verizon
Video
Virtual Private Networks
WiFi
Wi-FI Routers
Contact and Follow:
Web: #ForTheMovement
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NULpolicy
Jessica Rosenworcel: [email protected]
Twitter: @JRosenworcel
Google Policy on Twitter: @googlepubpolicy @mschanellep
Marc’s Twitter: @MarcMorial
Clint’s Twitter: @ClintEOdom
Toni’s Twitter: @ToniWiley_1789
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In this episode, we join Jessica Rosenworcel, a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission and one of the nation’s leading advocates for closing the “homework gap,” a particularly cruel part of the digital divide that prevents 12 million children from having access to broadband at home. More than half of the nation’s public-school children – 27 million -- are children of color. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused the closures of schools for more than 40 million kids nationwide, highlights the risk that children of color will not have access to classroom instruction during these extended school closures. Commissioner Rosenworcel discusses the response of companies to the pandemic and makes suggestions for policy and legislative responses to the crisis.
The host for this episode is Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy.
From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.
Discussed in this episode:
National Urban League
ACT
African American
AT&T
Backhaul
Black
Black America
Black Girls Code
Broadband
African American
Carla Hayden
Children of Color
Charter
Comcast
Computers
Congress
Coronavirus
COVID-19
Data Caps
Digital Divide
Digital Economy
Digital Equity
Digital Infrastructure
Diversity
Emergency Power
eRate
FCC
FCC Open Meeting
Homework Gap
Internet
Kimberly Bryant
Last Mile
Library of Congress
Life in the Age of Coronavirus
Low Income
Marc Morial
Media
Mobile Hot Spots
National Plan
Networks
Online
Pandemic
President Trump
Remote Learning Environments
Rural
School Work
SAT
Senators
Stimulus
Title I
T-Mobile
Teachers
Telecommunications Act of 1996
Verizon
Video
Virtual Private Networks
WiFi
Wi-FI Routers
Contact and Follow:
Web: #ForTheMovement
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NULpolicy
Jessica Rosenworcel: [email protected]
Twitter: @JRosenworcel
Google Policy on Twitter: @googlepubpolicy @mschanellep
Marc’s Twitter: @MarcMorial
Clint’s Twitter: @ClintEOdom
Toni’s Twitter: @ToniWiley_1789