Podcast appearances and mentions of evan marwell

Welcome to another episode of The Action and Ambition Podcast! Joining us today is Evan Marwell, Founder, and CEO at EducatioSuperHighway, a national non-profit organization that helps solve one of the biggest problems facing public schools in America - the digital divide. It focuses on America's most unconnected communities, where more than 25% of people don't have access to the internet. In partnership with governors from all 50 states along with federal policymakers and other education broadband stakeholders, they have connected 99% of America's 47 million K-12 students. EducationSuperHighway has accomplished its mission by adopting strategies that accelerated its path to scale. Don't miss this out!  

In this episode of the Broadband Bunch, we speak with Evan Marwell, the Founder, and CEO of Education Superhighway. Their original mission was to bring high-speed Internet access to America's schools. Having completed this task with a 99% success rate, they were about to sunset the organization. Then COVID-19 happened and the organization decided to pivot and refocus its mission. In this illuminating episode, Evan shares with us how his organization teamed up with both public and private organizations to help shrink the homework gap and by doing so may have discovered the ultimate way to solve the digital divide.

On this episode, we are joined by Evan Marwell, CEO of EducationSuperhighway, a non-profit organization that just smashed a very ambitious goal to connect 99% of America’s public school classrooms to high-speed internet. Mr. Marwell talks about the work and partnerships that contributed to this successful venture and what’s next for the organization as America’s students migrate away from classrooms to at-home learning. The hosts for this episode are Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy and Toni Wiley, NUL Director of Advocacy. From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color. Discussed in this episode: National Urban League Black Black America African-American News Information Advocacy Politics Education COVID Students Public Schools Digital divide Technology High-Speed Internet Broadband Opportunity FCC Jessica Rosenworcel Bill Kennard Comcast Charter Telecom Internet Service Provider Governors Affordability School closure Homework gap Remote learning Jobs Pandemic Homeless Eviction Foreclosure Displacement Learning labs   Twitter and Instagram: @edsuperhighway Website: www.educationsuperhighway.org

On this episode of Connected Nation we talk with Evan Marwell, Founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway—a nonprofit with a mission to upgrade internet access in every public school classroom in America. Learn how the organization ultimately achieved its goal before pivoting its mission and focus to respond to the urgent need for better access at home following 2020 school closures.The following websites were referenced in the podcast:  https://www.educationsuperhighway.org/every-classroom-every-day/https://digitalbridgek12.org/toolkit/ 

For many families in the U.S., the Internet is like water. Just part of the household. But as COVID-19 has shown, that's not true for everyone. Diane and Michael speak with Evan Marwell, the founder of the Education Superhighway, about what it will take to get the Internet and devices to all kids–and why that … Continue reading Episode 1: Why Doesn't Every Student Have a Device and the Internet?

The following is a conversation between Evan Marwell, Founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway, and Denver Frederick, the host of the Business of Giving. In this interview, Evan Marwell, Founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway, shares the following: • You must define what success means • Know what your partners can and cannot do • How education and learning will change

Dolph talks with Evan Marwell, successful serial entrepreneur, about his move into the nonprofit world with the creation of EducationSuperHighway. Evan compares and contrasts his experiences starting for-profit companies with the startup of a nonprofit organization.   *****Timestamped Highlights***** (2:20) The wifi problem that launched EducationSuperHighway (4:30) F.E. #1 – Learning from Bold Endeavors by Felix Rohatyn (6:00) F.E. #2 – Expanding a school’s bandwidth for technology (7:45) F.E. #3 – Bringing the tech issue center stage (White House) (9:35) America’s CTO lets Evan in on a government secret (shhh!) (12:23) How Evan ran his nonprofit like a startup (18:42) A project-oriented team is KEY! (20:56) Gauging commitment to allocate tasks (22:24) Working with a sense of urgency (23:25) You MUST recruit the people that are invested in your mission (25:39) A Big Bold & Finite Goal: Go out of business by 2020 (28:25) Preaching “planned obsolescence” to avoid mission creep (35:15) Evan’s entrepreneurial advice (38:49) “It’s better to be lucky than smart”   Links: Bold Endeavors: https://www.amazon.com/Bold-Endeavors-Government-America-Rebuild/dp/1416533133 2019: State of the State Report: www.educationsuperhighway.org Be in the know about bandwidth: www.compareandconnectk12.org  

Evan Marwell was a man on a mission when he founded EducationSuperHighway in 2012. A data driven entrepreneur he analyzed technology at K-12 schools and didn't like what he saw. While many assumed that schools had adequate bandwidth to deliver new edtech tools into classrooms, what he found was a huge difference between that perception and reality. So he created a non-profit to create a new reality. Evan will take us on his entrepreneurial journey over the past 7 years, his lessons learned along the way with tips for any social entrepreneur striving for large-scale change. Enjoy!

7 years ago Evan Marwell set out to connect all students in U.S. public schools with high-speed internet. Today, 97% of students are connected. What does it take to reach coveted mission achievement? Evan Marwell, Founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway, and Shannon Farley, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Fast Forward, discuss. This was recorded at Fast Forward's tech for good summit, Accelerate Good Global. 

When you run a company, you hear two pieces of advice over and over again. One is that you must persevere at all costs. And the other is that you have to be ready to pivot on a dime. To persevere or pivot: it can be hard to tell which is right. But when Evan Marwell set out to tackle a huge national problem seven years ago, he didn’t really have to choose. Persistence is his default. Evan tells Alex the crazy story of how he helped to bring high speed Internet to American school children — thanks to a bit of luck and a lot of perseverance. Without Fail is hosted by Alex Blumberg. It is produced by Sarah Platt and edited by Alex Blumberg, Devon Taylor and Nazanin Rafsanjani. Jarrett Floyd mixed the episode. Theme and ad music by Bobby Lord. Additional music by Jupyter.