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  • 04/01/07

Students’ browsing experiences are impacted by a school’s available internet bandwidth.According to most surveyed technology directors, available bandwidth at home is also criticalto student learning. (Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding.)

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Available bandwidth in students’ homes is widely thought to be important to all learning, whether online or otherwise.

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The biggest slice of respondents say that more than a fourth of parents in their districts are accessing onlinelearning resources at least once a day.

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—Data courtesy of Jeanne Hayes (The Hayes Connection) and Tom Greaves (The Greaves Group)

Read about the full report, “America’s Digital Schools 2006: A Five-Year Forecast”

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