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Essential Guide to Digital Citizenship for CIPA and E-Rate

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E-rate is complicated. But complying with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) -- a requirement of E-rate -- doesn't have to be. It also provides an overview of E-rate, with answers to commonly asked questions about eligibility, services supported, and audits. What is E-rate?

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Building a culture of academic integrity in a remote learning environment

Neo LMS

At Kansas State University, academic integrity violations jumped from 97 cases in the 2019 fall semester to 238 cases in the online-only 2020 spring semester. At University in Florida, compared to the 2019 spring semester, academic integrity violations increased by 65% in the 2020 semester.

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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

In California, College Connect is Rowland Unified School District’s solution to making college and post-secondary pathways more equitable for every student. Similarly, during the 2019-2020 school year, San Antonio Union School District (California) created the first-ever student board member position. And the exemplars continue.

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How a Wi-Fi network upgrade can pave the way for digital learning

Education Superhighway

Kim and the district leadership team began strategically using E-rate Category 2 funds for the Wi-Fi network upgrade. First, classrooms have expanded their educational technology opportunities: At the secondary sites, students use Office 365 and Canvas to hand in and quickly receive personalized feedback. Steps to success.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

Edsurge

When the unemployment rate spiked during the spring of 2020, jobs that required a college degree declined more than those that didn’t, and new college graduates were hit the hardest. And it appears that investing in last-mile training has a secondary benefit: higher retention. With two-thirds of U.S.

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COLUMN: Helping middle schoolers think about a future beyond the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

We made a conscious decision to make the sixth-grade experience one where we expose children to everything,” said Rick Doss, the district’s director of secondary education. A recent report found Indiana’s rates at their lowest in recent history. They also believe imagining the future might help students cope better with the present. “We

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The Rise of eSports in Education: Breaking New Ground

The CoolCatTeacher

From 2017-2020, she held an Instructional Coaching Fellowship with Google for Education. And we have 14 states that have teacher-run nonprofits that run the e-sports organizations for their state. So teachers together and the students that we serve are literally the largest e-sports organization in the country.

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