edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

Previously, Elizabeth worked as an elementary teacher in Nevada and a residential counselor in Montana. He was also the recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Educator Award from the Elizabeth Forward Alumni Association. About the Presenters. Dr. Rocco received his B.A. from Duquesne University and earned his Ed.D.

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Digital Learning Instructional Materials Learning Policies 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

In the fall of 2009, ChiTech’s first students filed into its squat, 1950s-era building of drab yellow brick, an abandoned elementary school in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. From 2014 to 2016, the percentage of ChiTech freshmen on track to graduate in four years rose from 63 to 78 percent. compared to a district-wide average of 18.4

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Dr. David R.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 77

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

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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BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. A new elementary school, Presidential Park, hosts more than 1,000 students in a modern, state-of-the-art building. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. A new elementary school, Presidential Park, hosts more than 1,000 students in a modern, state-of-the-art building. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update June 10th, 2014 Children want the same things we want. ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 12,000 language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry. See details and registration information here.

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Google Classroom Digital Citizenship Conference 54

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. 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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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

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. ” That’s after paying £4,327 in UK taxes in 2014.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The move away from the Common Core consortia for assessment and towards the (Common Core-aligned) SAT has been a boon for the College Board, no surprise, which reported over $840 million in revenue in 2014 (the last year it’s tax forms are available online). ” So congrats, ed-tech vendors.)

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Colleges Whose Undergraduates Borrowed the Highest Average Amounts in Federal Loans in 2014–15.” ” (In Cleveland.).

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

In 2014, the FCC undertook a “modernization” plan for E-rate in part to address the changing demand for telecommunications services. Commissioner Pai had voted against those efforts, for what it’s worth, back in 2014, saying that the FCC order did little to curb bureaucracy or waste. A Brief History of E-rate Fraud.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

In 2014, the U.S. Oil prices dropped in 2014, plunging Alaska into a financial crisis and shrinking state funding for school capital projects from an average of $300 million per year to $124 million. The compromise does provide for electrifying school buses, lead pipe removal and expanded broadband access.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. ” Via Techcrunch : “ Mystery Science partners with Google to bring eclipse glasse s to elementary school students.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” More on the bill via Inside Higher Ed.

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50