EducationSuperHighway
Model & Strategy
EducationSuperHighway’s (ESH) mission is to close the K-12 digital divide so that every student has equal access to personalized learning, compelling curricula and great teachers. Digital learning has the power to restore America’s public schools to excellence — but only if schools have high-speed Internet access and robust Wi-Fi networks. Unfortunately, 80% of schools lack this infrastructure, thus leaving behind 40 million students. ESH is catalyzing existing resources to close this digital divide. ESH tests broadband at America’s K-12 schools, provides technical & procurement expertise and increases pricing transparency to lower cost. Using data-based advocacy, ESH maximizes the impact of the E-Rate program and facilitates the deployment of fiber and Wi-Fi in schools. ESH also catalyzed the launch of ConnectED, a Presidential initiative to upgrade the broadband in America’s K-12 schools.
Evan Marwell is the founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway. Over the last 25 years Evan has been an entrepreneur starting companies in the telecommunications, software, hedge fund and consumer retailing industries including INFONXX (now KGB) and Criterion Capital Management. Collectively, these businesses have created thousands of jobs and generated billions of dollars of revenues and investment returns. Evan has served on the board of several for-profit and non-profit organizations and is currently the President of the Board of Trustees at the Katherine Delmar Burke School in San Francisco. At Burke’s, Evan discovered that the school’s efforts to leverage technology were being undermined by a lack of Internet infrastructure – a problem common to 80% of America’s K-12 schools. After relaying this issue to the White House, Evan was challenged to start a non-profit to upgrade the Internet infrastructure in America’s schools. A week later, he founded EducationSuperHighway and made closing the K-12 digital divide his full time mission.
IMPACT
Mission Accomplished! 99% of America’s schools are now connected to high-speed broadband.
42.3M students have been connected to high-speed broadband since 2013. The percentage of school districts meeting minimum connectivity targets has increased from 30% in 2013 to 99.2% in 2019.
99% of schools in the country now have a high-speed fiber connection, up from 71% in 2013.
The cost of Internet access has fallen 90% since 2013 from $22 per Mbps to $2.24 per Mbps in 2019.
82 governors from all 50 states partnered with ESH to upgrade all of the schools in their state.
ESH catalyzed the launch of ConnectED – a presidential initiative to upgrade the broadband in America’s K-12 schools and convinced the FCC to increase its annual investment in K-12 broadband by $2.5B per year.
EducationSuperHighway News
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Lessons for Charity Leaders From EducationSuperHighwayEvan Marwell, founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit formed to bring broadband internet to every public school in America by 2020, has some advice…Feb 2019 -
Evan Marwell of EducationSuperHighway named Visionary of the Year by The San Francisco ChronicleEvan Marwell, founder of the nonprofit EducationSuperHighway, was named the 2015 Visionary of the Year by The San Francisco Chronicle. He is the first to win…Apr 2016
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EducationSuperHighway: $1.5 Billion Added to E-Rate as FCC Takes Next Step in E-Rate ModernizationIt’s official. Part two of E-rate modernization was voted on December 11th and it was a resounding win for EducationSuperHighway’s reform agenda. The FCC increased…Dec 2014
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RT @ctaiken: The @EdSuperHighway team do fantastic work helping at-risk #students connect and learn. Proud to partner with them to ensure t…
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We are delighted that @WISPAnews has joined K-12 Bridge to Broadband, and #WISPs are providing the data schools nee… https://t.co/MleYCdupyu
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From today, eligible households can enroll in the @FCC’s $3.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit Program to receiv… https://t.co/nsDepKnI5W
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EducationSuperHighway congratulates the @FCC on establishing the Emergency Connectivity Fund. It prioritizes the mi… https://t.co/icWYM62EwE
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RT @Rishi__Muskaan: It was an inspiring session with @emarwell on the approach to scale a solution to bridge the digital divide prevailing…
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RT @JRosenworcelFCC: Even as the pandemic ebbs in some areas and surges in others, millions of students are still engaged in remote learnin…
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RT @FCC: Breaking News: As of May 12, eligible households will be able to enroll in the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program to receive a mo…
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RT @CalMatters: Is your student having trouble with accessing reliable internet access for virtual education in California? https://t.co/pa…
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RT @ACAConnects: In the latest episode of Just Filed, @EMarwell of @EdSuperHighway and @KelleyDrye’s Tom Cohen join @ACAConnects’ @ROSSatAC…
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RT @ExcelinEd: We partnered with @EdSuperHighway to develop a step-by-step guide for states that highlights how to increase awareness, part…
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RT @connectednation: “Closing the homework gap depends on good data. This program is the first step in that effort.” Learn how @EdSuperHi…
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RT @ExcelinEd: We partnered with @EdSuperHighway to develop a step-by-step guide for states to increase awareness, participation & enrollme…
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RT @emarwell: The pandemic has made it clear that without broadband, American’s are shut out of economic security and opportunity. This mor…
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EducationSuperHighway’s FCC reply comments on establishing the Emergency Connectivity Fund to close the… https://t.co/O2jcwZtgCs
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“Used efficiently, the #AmericanJobsPlan provides the resources needed to close the broadband infrastructure gap on… https://t.co/v422X6ZcM9
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“Biden’s $100 billion figure for broadband expansion trumps most other efforts to finish connecting every household… https://t.co/VYO5chinje
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RT @OfficialDLDay: On #DLDay2021, the champion of closing the #HomeworkGap, @JRosenworcelFCC joined us and spoke about making a difference…
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RT @SHLBCoalition: Our friends at @EdSuperHighway put together this handy-dandy summary of federal funding available for home K-12 connecti…