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E-rate Works: Bringing Broadband to New Mexico Tribal Communities

Education Superhighway

As a strategy to increase buying power while reducing costs for the tribal community anchor institutions, librarians, education directors, tribal administrators, and IT staff came together to navigate the application process, engage pueblo leadership, coordinate with greater New Mexico state efforts, and advocate to move this project forward.

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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. Over the past two decades, the FCC through its E-Rate program has connected just about every U.S. In a rapidly changing world, this is no longer possible.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

During my teaching career, I’ve observed that when students are given the autonomy to explore subjects that they are passionate about, their engagement and retention rates soar. This can involve differentiated instruction strategies where tasks are tailored to each student’s learning pace and style. link] Martinez, M.

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5 things districts are doing to close the homework gap

eSchool News

The 2014 E-rate modernization helped a majority of schools meet the FCC’s short-term connectivity goal of 100 Mbps per 1,000 students, according to CoSN’s relaunched Digital Equity Initiative toolkit. The toolkit also highlights five strategies districts are leveraging to address those challenges.

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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

The Hechinger Report

NEW ORLEANS — School absences were rare for Lorenzo Elliott, the drum major of the George Washington Carver High School band and an honor roll student with a 96 percent attendance rate. Often, they can’t,” said Robert Schwartz , a visiting scholar at Temple University James E. His family said that police had picked him up.

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Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve

The Hechinger Report

In fact, down the hallway from his algebra class, two industrious history teachers were trying out their own strategies. He began class by telling students that he was confident they would soon know how to solve it. In 2014, 83 percent of the school’s students graduated within four years; last year, 91 percent did.

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Most districts are doing nothing about the homework gap; a few are making a big difference

eSchool News

billion increase in E-rate funding over the last 18 months. In 2014, nearly 75 percent of school systems surveyed did not have any off-campus strategies for providing connectivity to students at home and after school. Next page: How to take action on the homework gap. Together, we’re better.

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