Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. They began using their 5-year budgets in FY 2015 (i.e. their budgets end in FY 2019). FY 2016 – FY 2019). They have not used any Category 2 funding.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Before 2015, a large portion of the funding was reserved for subsidizing school phone lines; little funding was set aside to support schools with upgrading their internal networks. With the E-rate 471 filing window set to close on March 27, 2019 , school districts must get started now to meet all required deadlines.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The Federal Communications Commission has issued a highly anticipated Report and Order (12/3/2019), that makes notable and permanent changes to E-rate rules for Category Two funding applications. ALL applicants, even those who started spending Category Two funding in 2015, will be able to continue using that funding in 2020.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

billion, matching the previous high for the single-year funding total of this decade, set in 2015. There’s a notable difference between 2018 and 2015, however. In 2015 there were 165 deals, versus just 112 in 2018. Source: CB Insights This pattern is likely to continue into 2019. Last year, U.S. billion raised by U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

Fast forward to 2019. In 2015, a major report from the research nonprofit RAND found that personalized learning works, confirming many of our hopes. A survey of schools and libraries done by the FCC in 2010 found that 80% reported that broadband services did not “fully meet their current needs.” Today, 99% of U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Back in her home state, Roden says what helped her company grow was legislation passed by Texas in 2015 requiring school districts and charter schools to implement family engagement plans to help schools involve families and improve family attitudes toward education. That ended up throwing gas on our little fire,” she says.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. For example, the Broadband for Montana Schools program contracted with several E-rate consultants and provides grants to help Montana schools successfully apply for the E-rate Program.

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E-rate Broadband Report Libraries 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

In 2017, the same survey reported 44 percent of respondents found the EPC portal “difficult to use,” compared with 50 percent in 2015 and 2016. Even more troublesome than the delays are flat-out denials, says Evan Marwell, CEO of EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit that advocates for improved broadband in schools. 1 target date.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

More highlights from this year’s report: The number of students with access to the broadband they need for digital learning grew from 4 million in 2013 to 44.7 Since 2015, the amount invested in Wi-Fi nearly doubled to $2.9 billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019. billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

million) during its 2018 to 2019 fiscal year that ended in March—tripled from the prior fiscal year. He offered online live and video classes through broadband and satellite to teach students beyond the centers’ walls. It would report revenue of about $2 million for the 2014-2015 fiscal year, according to TechCircle.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

When the Grand Hotel burned down, in 2015, a sense of resignation settled in, Glaser said. percent of its population between 2010 and 2019, Hazard grew by 13 percent. Others lack access to broadband internet or can’t afford it. Though Appalachian Kentucky lost 2.2

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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.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 85

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4 JumpStart provided a pipeline to NOVA as more than a third of students enrolled in the fall (while community college enrollment fell by around 10% at the start of the school year compared with 2019, NOVA enrollment increased by 2%).

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 142

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

” that by 2019 half of all high school classes will be taught over the internet ; Raised questions about a new study on personalized learning ; Added four new incidents to the K-12 cyber incident map ; and. Unified gets a $3.26-million million federal grant to study online credit recovery | LA Times → L.A.

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EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

According to cybersecurity firm Symantec, 54 “zero-day vulnerabilities” (a security hole in platforms such as Microsoft Windows that can be exploited by hackers before the vendor can deliver a fix) were discovered in 2015, an increase of 125 percent from the prior year. Cybercrime is the next threat.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2021

million public-school students — or nearly 1 in 5 of all students in the country — attend a rural school , according to a November 2019 report from the Rural School and Community Trust. And then, in 2015, Daniels noticed an opening to teach special education. Across the U.S., Daniels went for it. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Arlington is a fast-growing district, and Discovery Elementary opened in 2015 as part of an ongoing school-building program (it shares a campus with a middle school with a trailer park to accommodate its overflowing student population). Another net-zero elementary school, also designed by VMDO, is to open in 2019. RELATED: Psst!

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Michelle Luhtala , Department Chair of the New Canaan, CT, High School Library and a 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker , is a leader in helping teacher-librarians all around the country to become Future Ready. The broadcast was attended by 450 librarians and educators for an informative and engaging discussion with the whole audience.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. broadband privacy rules.” ” From August: “ Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people.”

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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. In March 2015, the Aspen Institute appointed Hildreth a Communication and Society Program Fellow.

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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. In March 2015, the Aspen Institute appointed Hildreth a Communication and Society Program Fellow.

Libraries 28

Libraries Conference OER Trends 28