See more on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the cspan radio app. Your place for an unfiltered view of politics. Joining us this week on the communicators is alan pratt, he is the executive director of the National Rural Education Association and he joins us from chattanooga, tennessee. What is that association and what do you do . Our association is the voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve a rural schools and communities and right now we are looking at a Digital Divide and we are looking at the reopening of schools in a very different way. That is what i a lot of our work has been focused on over the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit and in rural, remote areas or areas outside
Association and what do you do . Then our association is voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve rural schools and communities. We are looking at a digital divide. We are looking at reopening schools in a very different way. Thats what a lot of our work has been focused on the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit in rural, remote areas or areas outside of urban, suburban areas. We have connectivity issues with cell phones and wired access as well. We have a 40 beauty issues affordability issues. We are looking at the lack of access and affordability of the surface. How many students are we talking about . Allen overall, you know, rural represents about 9. 7 million students. But you ar
Who can easily log on in the first place. As for the other half, well, thats a different story, as david pogue explains this morning. Reporter during the pandemic, highspeed internet has been the foundation of work, school, and doctor visits, which is great if you have highspeed internet. But about half of americans dont. To get online to do your research or your correspondence, you park at a taco bell . I do. Reporter ahead on sunday morning, the Great American Internet Access crisis. Pauley she is a legend of country music, tanya tucker. And back before the pandemic shut most concerts down, she shared some stories with our bob schieffer. Delta dawn reporter she was once country musics wild child, a breakout star at the ripe old age of 13, tanya tucker has been riding high for five decades. With a grammywinning album that is getting the best reviews of here career. If that 13yearold tanya tucker was sitting here, what would you tell her today . I dont think i would tell her anything.
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