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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2010 $100,000,000.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Districts have spent thousands of dollars on consultants and software upgrades, and the racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps that the law was supposed to help eliminate remain largely unchanged. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. In 2010, she moved her blog to this website, barbarabray.net, to expand on the writing she was doing.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

million settlement paid by Hewlett Packard in 2010 over accusations of fraud. The Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that CIPA does not violate the Constitution. Now that schools are increasingly providing students with laptops or tablets, filtering software often happens at the device-level, not simply at the school network level.

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