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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls.

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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

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If the workday of an adult typically requires seamless broadband access, then it’s reasonable that today’s students need the same access during their school day. The key is the state leadership to make broadband accessible to all. More important, states are starting to recognize the need for equitable access off site.

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Teaching Strategies Buys ReadyRosie to Reach Parents and Children With Video Lessons

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The Denton, Texas-based company is also growing up itself. ReadyRosie founder and CEO Emily Roden says helping children by engaging their parents has helped her company grow to serve 6,500 Head Start programs, childcare centers and elementary schools. The company has raised no outside capital since its start.

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Campus vs. Online: Where is the future of education located?

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When considering that technology is playing an ever-increasing role in education, specifically the use of online learning tools, what the future of education looks like is a question many educational historians ponder. Graduates can go on to six-figure salaries in highly profile positions at sought after software companies.

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Grant bridges educational divide in Ga.

eSchool News

“We are proud to extend our support of EveryoneOn through this grant, providing families with increased access to the tools necessary to compete in today’s digital world.” Since 2012, Cox has connected more than 100,000 low-income Americans to the internet through the Connect2Compete program. Cox Foundation.

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Nearly all American classrooms can now connect to high-speed internet, effectively closing the “connectivity divide”

The Hechinger Report

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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The Challenges of Easy Data Access

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The tools you are buying are not the ones you should be most concerned [about]. The tools school districts should be most concerned about are the ones they don’t even know are being used” said Draper. Monica Cougan joined ENA in 2012, where she currently serves as the product marketing manager. It’s What You Don’t Know.

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