Talk:EducationSuperHighway

Proposed updates to reflect organization's full history (2020–present) — COI disclosure

I am affiliated with EducationSuperHighway and am proposing the following edits to bring this article up to date. I am disclosing this per Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines and ask an independent editor to review and apply these changes. All facts are sourced and verifiable. I have not attempted to add promotional language.

The article currently states that EducationSuperHighway "would sunset on August 31, 2020." This is factually inaccurate — the organization did not close. It pivoted its mission three times: from K–12 classroom connectivity (2012–2020), to pandemic home connectivity response (2020), to closing the household broadband affordability gap (2021–2025), and most recently to early literacy (2025–present). The proposed additions and corrections are below, including ready-to-use wikitext for each section.

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1. Correction to existing "sunset" language

Current text (to be replaced):

"In January 2020, EducationSuperHighway reported that it had created a new tool (ConnectK12) to provide broadband data and pricing information, and announced EducationSuperHighway would sunset on August 31, 2020."

Proposed replacement text:

In January 2020, EducationSuperHighway announced the creation of ConnectK12, a tool to provide broadband data and pricing information to school districts, and indicated it would wind down its original K–12 classroom connectivity mission. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the organization to redirect its resources to home connectivity challenges facing students nationwide.

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2. New section — Pandemic response and Digital Bridge K-12 (2020)

Proposed wikitext (insert after existing broadband/school connectivity section):

==Pandemic response and Digital Bridge K-12== When COVID-19 school closures began in March 2020, EducationSuperHighway pivoted to address a new connectivity crisis: millions of students lacked the home internet access required for remote learning. The organization launched the '''Digital Bridge K-12''' initiative to help school districts identify and connect students without home internet service. Through the program, EducationSuperHighway assisted more than 800 school districts across 41 states in identifying students lacking home internet connections and dedicated learning devices. The organization secured commitments from more than 80 local and national internet service providers — collectively serving more than 80% of the U.S. population — to share serviceability data with state agencies and school districts. This enabled districts to identify which students lacked access and match them with existing low-cost or sponsored service offerings. Participating ISPs also created "sponsored service" options allowing school districts and states to purchase home internet connections directly for students. The Digital Bridge K-12 model drew on public-private partnerships developed during the pandemic in North Dakota and Chicago, and helped establish frameworks for state-level home connectivity data collection that influenced subsequent federal digital equity policy.<ref>[https://www.prweb.com/releases/educationsuperhighway_report_outlines_plans_to_tackle_k_12_home_connectivity_crisis/prweb17603633.htm "EducationSuperHighway Report Outlines Plans to Tackle K-12 Home Connectivity Crisis"], PRWeb.</ref><ref>[https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/k12/article/2020/06/expert-qa-evan-marwell-ceo-educationsuperhighway-home-access-gap "Expert Q&A: Evan Marwell, CEO of EducationSuperHighway, on the Home Access Gap"], EdTech Magazine, June 2020.</ref>

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3. New section — No Home Left Offline: Household Broadband Mission (2021–2025)

Proposed wikitext (insert after Digital Bridge K-12 section):

==No Home Left Offline (2021–2025)== On November 4, 2021, EducationSuperHighway announced a new organizational mission under the name '''No Home Left Offline''', targeting the household broadband affordability gap. Research by the organization found that 18 million American households had access to broadband internet but could not afford to subscribe — meaning affordability, not infrastructure availability, had become the primary driver of the digital divide.<ref>[https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/11/04/2327403/0/en/EducationSuperHighway-Study-Reveals-18-Million-American-Households-Have-Access-to-the-Internet-But-Can-t-Afford-to-Connect.html "EducationSuperHighway Study Reveals 18 Million American Households Have Access to the Internet But Can't Afford to Connect"], GlobeNewswire, November 4, 2021.</ref> The organization raised $16 million in philanthropic support from donors including Emerson Collective, Blue Meridian Partners, Ken Griffin/Citadel, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Walton Family Foundation, and Zoom Cares Fund.<ref>[https://www.telecompetitor.com/educationsuperhighway-launches-no-home-left-offline-program/ "EducationSuperHighway Launches No Home Left Offline Program"], Telecompetitor, November 2021.</ref> Between 2022 and 2024, EducationSuperHighway published a series of policy reports on the broadband affordability gap: * ''No Home Left Offline: Accelerating Affordable Connectivity Program Adoption'' (2022) * ''No Home Left Offline: Free Apartment Wi-Fi — How States Can Close the Digital Divide in Affordable Multi-Dwelling Units'' (2023) * ''No Home Left Offline: A Broadband Affordability Benefit to Connect the Unconnected'' (2024) These reports contributed to a shift in the national digital divide policy debate from infrastructure access to affordability. Twenty-nine governors made broadband affordability a priority for their administrations, and 45 states included the [[Affordable Connectivity Program]] (ACP) as a strategy in their [[Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program|BEAD]] and Digital Equity Plans. The organization assembled a coalition of 1,547 nonprofits, housing organizations, healthcare providers, civil rights groups, municipalities, and education partners. At the federal level, Congress funded the $14.2 billion Affordable Connectivity Program as part of the [[Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act]] (IIJA) — the nation's largest broadband affordability program, which ultimately helped more than 23 million households get or stay online. The ACP expired in May 2024. '''ACP enrollment''' To accelerate ACP enrollment, EducationSuperHighway built a national public-private partnership with states, cities, and more than 3,000 community organizations, ISPs, and trusted institutions. The organization developed four tools to support enrollment: GetACP, a mobile enrollment website helping households determine eligibility and enroll directly; LearnACP, an online certification course for community advocates; a Contact Center providing one-on-one virtual application support; and PromoteACP, a customizable marketing resource hub. In under three years, adoption of federal broadband programs nationally increased from 17% to 43%. EducationSuperHighway's partners directly connected 4.6 million previously unconnected households. Across the initiative, GetACP.org received 158,000 visitors from every state, 4,000 individuals became LearnACP-certified across 48 states, 11,000 users received personalized contact center support, and more than 3,000 partner organizations downloaded resources.<ref>EducationSuperHighway, ''Impact Report'', October 2024.</ref> '''Free Apartment Wi-Fi''' EducationSuperHighway identified affordable multi-dwelling unit (MDU) buildings — such as subsidized apartment complexes — as a high-impact pathway to connecting low-income households. The organization successfully advocated for Congress to include the deployment of free Wi-Fi networks in affordable MDUs as an eligible use of the $42.5 billion in BEAD funds included in the IIJA. EducationSuperHighway identified eligible buildings nationally and encouraged the [[National Telecommunications and Information Administration]] (NTIA) to establish a challenge process allowing states to maximize the affordable apartment buildings eligible for BEAD funding. As a result, 42 states included this challenge process in their BEAD plans. Forty-two states planned to use an estimated $228 million in BEAD funds to deploy free apartment Wi-Fi, and 17 additional states committed $329 million — for a total of $557 million committed by state programs. These investments are projected to connect one million low-income households in affordable apartment buildings, leveraging more than $1 billion in federal funding.<ref>EducationSuperHighway, ''Impact Report'', October 2024.</ref>

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4. New section — Literacy mission (2025–present)

Proposed wikitext (insert after No Home Left Offline section):

==Literacy mission (2025–present)== Following the conclusion of its home broadband work, EducationSuperHighway launched a third mission focused on early literacy. The organization now operates as a '''Scholarship Granting Organization''' (SGO), raising funds to provide literacy tutoring scholarships to first-grade students reading below grade level.<ref>[https://www.educationsuperhighway.org/about/ "About EducationSuperHighway"], EducationSuperHighway.org.</ref> The tutoring model is grounded in the [[Science of Reading]] — an evidence-based body of research on how children learn to read — and delivers one-on-one virtual tutoring sessions of approximately 15 minutes daily, led by expert reading tutors. Sessions focus on closing students' decoding gaps, with the goal of ensuring every participating student becomes a confident and fluent reader before second grade. EducationSuperHighway's SGO model is designed to leverage the federal Educational Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC), a $1,700 per-donor federal tax credit for contributions to qualifying scholarship-granting organizations, which takes effect January 1, 2027.

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5. Proposed updated article introduction

Proposed wikitext (to replace current opening paragraph):

'''EducationSuperHighway''' is a United States [[501(c)(3)]] nonprofit organization founded in 2012 by Evan Marwell. Originally established to connect [[K–12]] public school classrooms to high-speed internet, the organization achieved that mission by 2019, having connected 99.3% of America's public schools to broadband and helping approximately 47 million students in 99.7% of classrooms gain access. EducationSuperHighway also helped 5 million low-income households connect to affordable high-speed broadband.<ref>[https://www.educationsuperhighway.org/about/ "About EducationSuperHighway"], EducationSuperHighway.org.</ref> After completing its classroom connectivity mission, EducationSuperHighway pivoted to address home connectivity challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic through its Digital Bridge K-12 initiative, then launched a new mission in 2021 to close the household broadband affordability gap through its [[#No Home Left Offline (2021–2025)|No Home Left Offline]] initiative. In 2025, the organization launched a third mission focused on early literacy, providing literacy tutoring scholarships to first-grade students reading below grade level.

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Thank you for your time. I'm happy to provide additional sources or adjust any wording to better meet Wikipedia's standards for neutrality. <span data-dtsignatureforswitching="1"></span> EducationSuperHighway (talk) 16:45, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Reply 10-JUN-2026

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Edit request (resubmission): updates to reflect organization's history, 2020–present

Resubmitting the request from 17 April 2026 per the reviewer's feedback of 10 June 2026 — this version contains no nowiki markup. I am affiliated with EducationSuperHighway and am disclosing this per Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. I ask an independent editor to review and apply these changes. All facts are sourced and verifiable, and I have avoided promotional language.

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Background: the article currently states that EducationSuperHighway "would sunset on August 31, 2020." The organization did not close. It has pursued three successive missions since: pandemic home connectivity response (2020), household broadband affordability (2021–2025), and early literacy (2025–present). Five specific changes are requested below.

Request 1 — Correct the "sunset" sentence

Current text:

In January 2020, EducationSuperHighway reported that it had created a new tool (ConnectK12) to provide broadband data and pricing information, and announced EducationSuperHighway would sunset on August 31, 2020.

Proposed replacement:

In January 2020, EducationSuperHighway announced the creation of ConnectK12, a tool to provide broadband data and pricing information to school districts, and indicated it would wind down its original K–12 classroom connectivity mission. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the organization to redirect its resources to home connectivity challenges facing students nationwide.

Request 2 — New section: "Pandemic response and Digital Bridge K-12"

Please add a new level-2 section titled Pandemic response and Digital Bridge K-12 after the existing school connectivity content, with the following text:

When COVID-19 school closures began in March 2020, EducationSuperHighway pivoted to address a new connectivity crisis: millions of students lacked the home internet access required for remote learning. The organization launched the Digital Bridge K-12 initiative to help school districts identify and connect students without home internet service.

Through the program, EducationSuperHighway assisted more than 800 school districts across 41 states in identifying students lacking home internet connections and dedicated learning devices. The organization secured commitments from more than 80 local and national internet service providers — collectively serving more than 80% of the U.S. population — to share serviceability data with state agencies and school districts. This enabled districts to identify which students lacked access and match them with existing low-cost or sponsored service offerings. Participating ISPs also created "sponsored service" options allowing school districts and states to purchase home internet connections directly for students.

The Digital Bridge K-12 model drew on public-private partnerships developed during the pandemic in North Dakota and Chicago, and helped establish frameworks for state-level home connectivity data collection that influenced subsequent federal digital equity policy.

Request 3 — New section: "No Home Left Offline (2021–2025)"

Please add a new level-2 section titled No Home Left Offline (2021–2025) after the Digital Bridge K-12 section, with the following text:

On November 4, 2021, EducationSuperHighway announced a new organizational mission under the name No Home Left Offline, targeting the household broadband affordability gap. Research by the organization found that 18 million American households had access to broadband internet but could not afford to subscribe — meaning affordability, not infrastructure availability, had become the primary driver of the digital divide. The organization raised $16 million in philanthropic support from donors including Emerson Collective, Blue Meridian Partners, Ken Griffin/Citadel, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Walton Family Foundation, and Zoom Cares Fund.

Between 2022 and 2024, EducationSuperHighway published a series of policy reports on the broadband affordability gap:

• No Home Left Offline: Accelerating Affordable Connectivity Program Adoption (2022)
• No Home Left Offline: Free Apartment Wi-Fi — How States Can Close the Digital Divide in Affordable Multi-Dwelling Units (2023)
• No Home Left Offline: A Broadband Affordability Benefit to Connect the Unconnected (2024)

These reports contributed to a shift in the national digital divide policy debate from infrastructure access to affordability. Twenty-nine governors made broadband affordability a priority for their administrations, and 45 states included the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) as a strategy in their BEAD and Digital Equity Plans. The organization assembled a coalition of 1,547 nonprofits, housing organizations, healthcare providers, civil rights groups, municipalities, and education partners. At the federal level, Congress funded the $14.2 billion Affordable Connectivity Program as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) — the nation's largest broadband affordability program, which ultimately helped more than 23 million households get or stay online. The ACP expired in May 2024.

Within that section, please add a level-3 subsection titled ACP enrollment with the following text:

To accelerate ACP enrollment, EducationSuperHighway built a national public-private partnership with states, cities, and more than 3,000 community organizations, ISPs, and trusted institutions. The organization developed four tools to support enrollment: GetACP, a mobile enrollment website helping households determine eligibility and enroll directly; LearnACP, an online certification course for community advocates; a Contact Center providing one-on-one virtual application support; and PromoteACP, a customizable marketing resource hub.

In under three years, adoption of federal broadband programs nationally increased from 17% to 43%. EducationSuperHighway's partners directly connected 4.6 million previously unconnected households. Across the initiative, GetACP.org received 158,000 visitors from every state, 4,000 individuals became LearnACP-certified across 48 states, 11,000 users received personalized contact center support, and more than 3,000 partner organizations downloaded resources.

And a second level-3 subsection titled Free Apartment Wi-Fi with the following text:

EducationSuperHighway identified affordable multi-dwelling unit (MDU) buildings — such as subsidized apartment complexes — as a high-impact pathway to connecting low-income households. The organization successfully advocated for Congress to include the deployment of free Wi-Fi networks in affordable MDUs as an eligible use of the $42.5 billion in BEAD funds included in the IIJA. EducationSuperHighway identified eligible buildings nationally and encouraged the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to establish a challenge process allowing states to maximize the affordable apartment buildings eligible for BEAD funding. As a result, 42 states included this challenge process in their BEAD plans.

Forty-two states planned to use an estimated $228 million in BEAD funds to deploy free apartment Wi-Fi, and 17 additional states committed $329 million — for a total of $557 million committed by state programs. These investments are projected to connect one million low-income households in affordable apartment buildings, leveraging more than $1 billion in federal funding.

Request 4 — New section: "Literacy mission (2025–present)"

Please add a new level-2 section titled Literacy mission (2025–present) after the No Home Left Offline section, with the following text:

Following the conclusion of its home broadband work, EducationSuperHighway launched a third mission focused on early literacy. The organization now operates as a Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO), raising funds to provide literacy tutoring scholarships to first-grade students reading below grade level.

The tutoring model is grounded in the Science of Reading — an evidence-based body of research on how children learn to read — and delivers one-on-one virtual tutoring sessions of approximately 15 minutes daily, led by expert reading tutors. Sessions focus on closing students' decoding gaps, with the goal of ensuring every participating student becomes a confident and fluent reader before second grade.

EducationSuperHighway's SGO model is designed to leverage the federal Education Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC), a $1,700 per-donor federal tax credit for contributions to qualifying scholarship-granting organizations, which takes effect January 1, 2027.

Request 5 — Replace the opening paragraph

Proposed replacement for the current opening paragraph:

EducationSuperHighway is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2012 by Evan Marwell. Originally established to connect K–12 public school classrooms to high-speed internet, the organization achieved that mission by 2019, having connected 99.3% of America's public schools to broadband and helping approximately 47 million students in 99.7% of classrooms gain access. EducationSuperHighway also helped 5 million low-income households connect to affordable high-speed broadband.

After completing its classroom connectivity mission, EducationSuperHighway pivoted to address home connectivity challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic through its Digital Bridge K-12 initiative, then launched a new mission in 2021 to close the household broadband affordability gap through its No Home Left Offline initiative. In 2025, the organization launched a third mission focused on early literacy, providing literacy tutoring scholarships to first-grade students reading below grade level.

(Note: in the article itself, the first mention of EducationSuperHighway in the opening paragraph should be bolded per MOS:BOLDLEAD.)

References cited above

References

Thank you for your time. I'm happy to provide additional sources or adjust any wording to better meet Wikipedia's standards for neutrality. EducationSuperHighway (talk) 20:27, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Reply 14-JUL-2026

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• Thank you for reformatting your request. It's much appreciated!
• Unfortunately, 37.5% of the provided references in this new request are to sources written by those at the Education Super Highway. Wikipedia prefers references from reliable, independent, WP:SECONDARY sources.

Regards,  Spintendo  02:19, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Edit request (third submission): organization history 2020–present, independent sources only

Thank you for the 14 July review. Per that feedback, this revised request cites only independent, secondary sources — news coverage from EdSurge, The 74, Inside Philanthropy, Telecompetitor, Campus Technology, EdTech Magazine, and a Kansas state government announcement. All references to EducationSuperHighway's own website, reports, and press releases have been removed, along with every claim that was supported only by those sources. The proposed text is accordingly shorter than the previous version. I am affiliated with EducationSuperHighway and am disclosing this per Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. (Note: I submitted the two earlier requests as User:EducationSuperHighway; that account has since been renamed to this one to comply with the username policy.)

Request 1 — Correct the "sunset" sentence

Current text:

In January 2020, EducationSuperHighway reported that it had created a new tool (ConnectK12) to provide broadband data and pricing information, and announced EducationSuperHighway would sunset on August 31, 2020.

Proposed replacement:

EducationSuperHighway announced plans to wind down after reaching its goal of connecting 99 percent of U.S. schools to high-speed internet. However, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the organization to remain in operation and redirect its work toward students' home internet access.

Request 2 — New section: "Pandemic response"

Please add a new level-2 section titled Pandemic response after the existing school connectivity content, with the following text:

When COVID-19 school closures moved instruction online in 2020, EducationSuperHighway shifted its focus from school connectivity to students' home internet access. The organization created a tool to help school districts identify students who lacked internet access at home, and worked with districts on connecting students for remote learning during the pandemic.

Request 3 — New section: "No Home Left Offline (2021–2024)"

Please add a new level-2 section titled No Home Left Offline (2021–2024) after the Pandemic response section, with the following text:

In November 2021, EducationSuperHighway launched a new mission targeting the broadband affordability gap, outlined in its report No Home Left Offline: Bridging the Broadband Affordability Gap. The organization's research identified 18.1 million U.S. households that had access to internet service but could not afford to connect, concluding that affordability, rather than infrastructure, had become the largest component of the digital divide. The initiative was backed by a combined $16 million multi-year investment from funders including Laurene Powell Jobs's Emerson Collective, Blue Meridian Partners, Ken Griffin and Citadel, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Zoom Cares Fund.

The organization's strategy included promoting free Wi-Fi in low-income multi-family housing — which it estimated could close up to 25 percent of the digital divide — using federal broadband infrastructure funds, beginning with a pilot program in Oakland, California. EducationSuperHighway also partnered with states to increase enrollment in the federal Affordable Connectivity Program, including a statewide initiative launched with the governor of Kansas in 2023.

Request 4 — New section: "Literacy scholarships (2025–present)"

Please add a new level-2 section titled Literacy scholarships (2025–present) after the No Home Left Offline section, with the following text:

Following the end of its broadband work, EducationSuperHighway reinvented itself as a scholarship granting organization (SGO), with plans to deliver scholarships for literacy tutoring to students nationwide who enter first grade behind in reading. The move positions the organization to receive donations under the federal Education Freedom Tax Credit, a dollar-for-dollar tax credit of up to $1,700 for contributions to scholarship granting organizations, enacted in 2025 and taking effect in 2027.

Request 5 — Update the opening paragraph

Proposed replacement for the current opening paragraph:

EducationSuperHighway is a United States nonprofit organization founded in 2012 by Evan Marwell. Originally established to connect K–12 public school classrooms to high-speed internet, the organization announced in 2019 that it had reached its goal of connecting 99 percent of U.S. schools and prepared to wind down. It instead remained in operation, pivoting to students' home internet access during the COVID-19 pandemic and launching a broadband affordability initiative, No Home Left Offline, in 2021. In 2025, the organization reinvented itself as a scholarship granting organization providing literacy tutoring scholarships to first-grade students who are behind in reading.

(Note: in the article itself, the first mention of EducationSuperHighway should be bolded per MOS:BOLDLEAD.)

References cited above

References

Thank you again for the prompt reviews. Every statement above is now cited to independent secondary coverage; nothing relies on material published by the organization. Happy to adjust further. Andy at EducationSuperHighway (talk) 21:23, 5 August 2026 (UTC)