City Limits Op-ed: Katy Knight on the Digital Divide in Our Schools
Siegel Family Endowment’s Katy Knight argues in City Limits that we cannot let the digital divide leave more of our students behind.
Siegel Family Endowment’s Katy Knight argues in City Limits that we cannot let the digital divide leave more of our students behind.
At Siegel Family Endowment (SFE), we believe deeply in the importance of strong social, physical, and digital infrastructure as a prerequisite for cultivating an engaged, resilient, and equitable society.
Siegel Family Endowment’s Executive Director Katy Knight recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California.
What technically qualifies as infrastructure and who is responsible for investing in and maintaining the increasingly interdependent digital, physical, and social systems ?
Joshua Elder discusses the unique role of philanthropy in expanding access, improving quality, and enhancing the experience of computer science education in schools all over the country.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth (WCEG) hosted an event that centered a series of panel discussions around one central question.
Siegel Family Endowment asks practitioners from a wide range of diverse fields to reconsider the ways that they rely on and intersect with one another.
The group discussed a wide range of topics including New York City students, parents, and school communities.
As we develop new frameworks for understanding the ways that digital and social infrastructure overlap and rely on one another, it’s important to make sure we understand how new and emerging technologies impact all areas of everyday life.
This discussion centered on asking why the panelists and organizations they represent choose to make computer science education a major priority in their giving.
While the upheaval of the last year has been persistent and far reaching, our years of experience navigating uncertainty have served us well, and set us up to engage with new challenges while continuing to address the long term societal changes that define our work.