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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

Edsurge

edtech startups in 2017. Source: EdSurge Higher Education & Post-Secondary Post-secondary tools altogether saw a notable bump in funding. Schoolmint, which was acquired by BV Investment Partners in 2017, has also publicly shared its plans to piece together different edtech assets into one platform. “It Last year, U.S.

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Leading the Digital Transformation in Rural Districts During Crisis and Beyond

edWeb.net

One of the first challenges rural districts face is broadband access. Now, they are employing creative methods, such as expanding the reach of the school’s broadband so students can do work from the parking lot or in the surrounding area, having off-duty patrol cars become hotspots across the district.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

The agency issued an order to support affordable access to high-speed broadband in particular (not merely “access to the Internet”) and to boost access and bandwidth of schools’ WiFi networks. A $21 million settlement paid by NEC in 2006 for price-fixing. ” Among them: an $8.71

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