eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

EveryoneOn is a national nonprofit working to eliminate the digital divide by making high-speed, low-cost Internet service, computers and free digital literacy courses accessible to all unconnected Americans. Since 2012, Cox has connected more than 100,000 low-income Americans to the internet through the Connect2Compete program.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said. “We

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This can cause several issues from inequity in how students are taught to network issues as teachers access their personal playlists. More important, when educators can download and add digital resources on their own, they may be giving companies unintended access to private student information. About the Host.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

There are essential conditions for digital learning like state leadership, equity of access, accessibility for all students, interoperability considerations, and student data and privacy. Contracts with publishing companies ensure equal availability and pricing for Idaho’s large population of rural schools.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

While the tools may have print components, companies must submit them digitally, and only the digital materials are reviewed. Select schools in Orange County are part of LaunchED, an immersive, connected, and collaborative learning experience providing students with access to world-class digital tools and resources.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Jennifer also worked with public libraries to extend access to e-books via the Big Shift project, create vibrant outdoor spaces and events via the Redbox funded Outside the Box program and taught libraries how to use community based advocacy to extend their reach to their communities and stakeholders.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. schools had gained high-speed internet access, per the Federal Communications Commission’s minimum connectivity standard of 100 kilobits per second (kbps) per student.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

This work has focused on policy and innovations to foster universal broadband access and adoption, digital and media literacy, local journalism and information hubs, public service media, civic engagement, and government transparency. She was a member of the Freedom to Read Foundation Board from 2009-2011. patents.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

This work has focused on policy and innovations to foster universal broadband access and adoption, digital and media literacy, local journalism and information hubs, public service media, civic engagement, and government transparency. She was a member of the Freedom to Read Foundation Board from 2009-2011. patents.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

However, this lag began to erode when the rise of cloud computing made it possible for edtech startups to flood the market with educational applications, the expansion of broadband internet gave those apps an easy distribution channel into campuses, and an increasing number and variety of mobile devices provided them an in-school abode.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. This built considerable local support across party and geographic lines for the work.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. ” asks Fast Company. (I’m ” Presidential Campaign Politics.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Like many students in the district, she has no access to the internet at home. At least one Duke University study suggested that the arrival of broadband service in North Carolina between 2000 and 2005 correlated with a small, but significant dip in reading and math scores for elementary school students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The great irony is that the multimillion-dollar cable was planted in the Arctic by an Anchorage-based telecommunications company thanks, in large part, to global warming. Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” ” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in. Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.” ”). The cause : a typo.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The act called for “universal service” so that all Americans could have access to affordable telecommunications services, regardless of their geographical location. As an op-ed in The Washington Post put it , “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice.

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Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Congressional Republicans and the Trump White House appear poised to bring back year-round Pell Grant eligibility , which the Obama administration and Congress nixed in 2012 over cost concerns.” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “New Law Nixing Broadband Privacy Protections Stirs K–12 Fears.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

But the struggling sector’s political giving is down since peaking in 2012,” Inside Higher Ed reports. The company said that it would keep the Vine website online, but you should probably download anything you’ve got there. Upgrades and Downgrades. The CEO has resigned. Microsoft is doing a desktop PC thing.

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