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Schools Tap Secret Spectrum to Beam Free Internet to Students

"If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem."

The floor-to-ceiling glass wall between the high-tech fabrication lab and the hallway at Monticello High School in Albemarle County, Virginia, is meant to showcase the hands-on, self-directed learning done there.

"I give the kids access to all the tools pretty much right off the bat," said Eric Bredder, with a sweeping gesture taking in the computer workstations, 3-D printers, laser cutters and milling machines, plus a bevy of wood and metalworking tools that he uses while teaching computer science, engineering and design classes. But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning–broadband internet beyond school walls.

Full Story: https://www.wired.com/story/schools-secret-spectrum-free-internet-digital-divide/

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