I’m borrowing the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society excerpt of the Consortium on School Networking‘s report, the 2022 Student Home Internet Connectivity Study…

In a previous study, CoSN examined the network connectivity experience of students who participated in virtual learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that many students have returned to their school locations, CoSN wanted to see how things changed. Major findings of the 2022 Home Internet Connectivity Study include:

1. Addressing insufficient home internet connectivity must continue to be a priority for educators and policymakers.
2. Students experience significantly slower network speeds outside of school hours than during school hours.
3. There remain ongoing gaps in network performance and Internet speeds at all grade levels for students connecting from outside the school.
4. Large disparities persist among student subgroups around home connectivity, particularly by ethnicity and for socioeconomically disadvantaged students.