Education Superhighway

JULY 8, 2019

As the State E-rate Director, Milan Eaton has been working on the Arizona Broadband for Education Initiative since it began in 2016. Tell us about your journey from working in the telecom industry to your role now as State E-rate Director for the Arizona Department of Education.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 29, 2018

Participates in the E-rate competitive bidding process. While we do provide guidance about E-rate filing strategies through our website, webinars, and other avenues, we do not directly apply to provide services to districts. Provides training on E-rate eligible services and technology implementation.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The E-rate Category 2 program has been a game changer for school districts across America looking to upgrade their internal networks. Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. Current program set up.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Connecting our nation’s schools, libraries, health clinics and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) to next generation high-speed broadband is an important national priority. The SHLB Action Plan gives policy makers a road map for designing a broadband strategy that promotes education, health care and community enrichment.”.

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Education Superhighway

MARCH 9, 2018

With only about two weeks left in the E-rate filing window, it’s critical to make sure that the vendor you’ve chosen is able to provide what your district needs at the best possible cost. Here are some guidelines to help you advocate for your school district’s broadband needs effectively and on time. Ask for Extras.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 15, 2015

If we intend to prepare students for the jobs of the modern economy, ensuring high-speed broadband access is a crucial first step. For lucky kids, the K-12 digital divide will soon be a memory, thanks to bold leadership from their governors to make high-speed broadband a priority and take steps to close the connectivity gap in their schools.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Students now interview authors across the country via Skype and access books that match their interests and reading levels on e-readers. Teachers attend training sessions via webinar. While broadband wasn’t a specific focus of the survey, Purcell said that the issue did arise frequently in focus groups.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

For more than 20 years, the Federal Communications Commission has directed the multi-billion dollar E-rate program, which provides taxpayer-supported construction and service discounts that districts and libraries can use toward internet costs. A quarter of respondents rated the system neither easy nor difficult in the 2017 survey.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2016

It was the 100-percent response rate from the survey. “We We knew most districts and schools would respond, but a 100-percent response rate shows that technology is a high priority for education leaders throughout the state,” he said. Connected Nation released the results of the survey last month. “We

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In rural districts, children and youth face profound obstacles—geographic isolation and long bus rides to school, frustratingly slow internet connections, limited course options, and low college-going rates. Specifically, only one-third of rural students matriculate in college compared to nearly half of urban students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Gabe Soumakian: With E-rate modernization, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and more taking place at once, what are you looking at in terms of changes to the way you’re funding technology these days? Stuart Burt : When they changed E-rate a couple years ago, it was a learning curve.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Efforts by the national nonprofit EducationSuperHighway to publicize how much districts pay for broadband have allowed many school systems to negotiate bandwidth deals to get greater capacity for a fraction of the cost. Some discounts came on accessories, AppleCare and teacher training.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Consider this gap: some 99 percent of K-12 public schools and libraries in some form or fashion (thanks in large part to the E-Rate program) yet 30 percent of Americans. The ubiquitous nature of the K-12 classroom has created some significant equity issues. Intent on bridging that gap, Little Falls CSD is working with Albany, N.Y.-based

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Politics and Policies FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Connect to Compete , a new non-profit initiative that brings private industry and the non-profit sector together to help expand broadband adoption and promote digital literacy. Launches Rated JPG reports that beloved toy-maker LEGO is building its own social network.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

These rural districts face the four significant challenges: broadband access, funding, people, and understanding the “why.” Broadband access has become more critical in the last year and a half than ever before. Challenges. Wherever the location, funding is always a challenge for educational leaders.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

To help develop this workforce, Intelitek, a worldwide CTE leader, has released SmartCIM 4.0 , a modular training environment featuring industrial working components for computer-integrated manufacturing education. Linewize announced that Qustodio, its new parental control app, is now available for all School Manager and Classwize customers.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This broadband leader has always had a passion for policy – especially when it came to funding for technology in schools. After we held a “ Fiber Bootcamp ” with Joe Fredosso and a lawyer from the FCC, we went down to the capitol and held a similar training for legislative staffers.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 9, 2017

Tagged on: April 8, 2017 Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data | Google Research → Fascinating and promising approach. It could theoretically enable privacy-first personalized learning without the need to share student data with cloud providers. Being watched never does."

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Doug Levin

APRIL 9, 2017

Tagged on: April 8, 2017 Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data | Google Research → Fascinating and promising approach. It could theoretically enable privacy-first personalized learning without the need to share student data with cloud providers. Being watched never does."

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This includes navigating the often politicized issues related to immunizations, the high student absence rate due to quarantines or parents wanting to keep their children home, and the negative impact the pandemic had on student and staff mental health. Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc. billion by 2022.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. ” These colleges no longer offer federal loans because of students’ high default rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

A $500 round-trip flight to Anchorage or Fairbanks for teacher training, or a robotics tournament, or a college visit, is a hard sell for districts struggling with the impact of a statewide recession. But faster, more affordable broadband could help students navigate the effects of global warming evident in their own backyards.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

“5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali. ” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” asks Jade E.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For its part, Udacity has fully rebranded itself as a high-tech job training company, a topic I’ll cover in more detail in a forthcoming article in this series. The Post and Courier reported on South Carolina’s charter schools this summer, noting that their graduation rate is half of that at traditional schools – just 42%.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Not Net Neutrality, but another potential FCC move – ending the E-Rate program. Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” ” The Business of Job Training. ” Via Futurism : “ Global E-Waste Increased by Eight Percent since 2014.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Via NPR : “ Betsy DeVos ’ Graduation Rate Mistake.” ” Via The Consumerist : “New Chairman Orders FCC To Abandon Court Defense Of Rule Limiting Prison Phone Rates.” ” Via Education Week : “ FCC Revokes Decision Allowing Companies to Provide Low-Income Families With Subsidized Broadband.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

E-Rate has been, since the origin of the fund in 1996, the main way in which schools and libraries were supposedly guaranteed “reasonable rates” on telecommunications services. million in E-Rate rebates.). Bandwidth is necessary, and schools still struggle to provide it, particularly in rural areas.

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