E-Rate Funding Applications Total $3.9B for 2015
EdTech Magazine
MAY 20, 2015
Frank Smith 'These requests reflect long pent-up demand' says FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
$1B in E-rate funding left on the table
Education Superhighway
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
As the largest education technology program in the country, the Schools and Libraries program (E-rate) has transformed Internet access in our nation’s schools. In 2014, AASA played a lead role in modernizing the E-rate program, advocating for key changes such as: A policy update to make the program broadband-centric; and.
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K–12 Leaders Get Creative to Make the Case for Network Upgrades
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 20, 2019
I told them we were at 1 gig in 2013, we went up to 2 gigs in 2015, and now we need 10 gigs,” Phillips says. “We MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out where K–12 schools can turn to secure funding for personalized learning programs. She showed a 1-inch, 2-inch and 10-inch pipe, labeling them as 1Gbps, 2Gbps and 10Gbps. “I
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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms
Waterford
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Now is a particularly helpful time to consider implementing blended or hybrid learning, two strategies that allow for independent or remote learning. We’ve put together a quick primer on what blended and hybrid learning strategies are and why they might have a place in your classroom. Blended Learning vs. Hybrid Learning.
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What do educators want from E-rate? Voice service, more C2 funding
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
Funds For Learning survey indicates applicants would restore support for voice service if able. Eighty-six percent of E-rate applicants participating in a recent survey said they are concerned about the Federal Communication Commission’s phase-out of support for voice service, according to recent data. billion.
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?34.9 Million US Students—Up 10.4 Million since 2015—Now Connected Online
Edsurge
JANUARY 17, 2017
E-Rate , an FCC program that provides funding to help schools and libraries build fiber infrastructure and expand their wi-fi and broadband networks. The program offers a wealth of school internet data which EducationSuperHighway used for its first State of the States report , based on 6,500 reporting districts, in 2015.
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Research-based Benefits of Being Bilingual
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 2, 2024
In my years as an EFL teacher, I’ve witnessed the delight and challenge children experience in learning a new language. Learning a new language opens a gateway to its underlying culture, offering insights into how others think and behave. Bialystok, E. Bialystok, E.
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5 things you don’t know about K-12 virtual learning
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Online learning has come a long way since its early champions saw it as a supplement to classroom learning. And while online learning has more than proven itself to be both an alternative to and complementary offering for traditional classroom instruction, some misconceptions still persist. It hasn’t reached its peak yet.
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The power of ed-tech in the developing world
Neo LMS
DECEMBER 14, 2017
We focus a lot on the K-12 system of the United States in our blog , and I thought it would be fun and interesting to explore how countries in the developing world are facing their specific educational challenges with blended learning models. The pilot generated positive results with the average successful pass rate being 86% across topics.
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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Then she saw an online ad for the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA). As parents fearful of coronavirus’s spread and frustrated with their schools’ forays into remote learning seek other options, they are increasingly turning to virtual for-profit charter schools like the one Nemergut chose.
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SETDA in the News: January 2015 Round Up
SETDA Says
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
January 2015 brought lots of renewed energy and excitement to SETDA. Best Practices Digital Content E-Rate ED Equity of Access In the News Interoperability OER Personalized Learning Policy' At the beginning of the month, the Board of Director’s announced a new.
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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. But at a university? “We Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.
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PROOF POINTS: New higher ed data by race and ethnicity
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Before the pandemic, white, Black and Hispanic Americans were enrolling in college at about the same rates, especially when unemployment was high and jobs were hard to find. Asian Americans enrolled in college at much higher rates.) I was surprised to learn that the answer is yes – with a few caveats. Census Bureau.
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Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds
Marketplace K-12
AUGUST 30, 2016
Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. billion drop in worldwide revenue from 2015 to 2021.
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Neo LMS
OCTOBER 2, 2018
In the previous posts on this topic our examination found that technology can and does help when it comes to improving completion rates , reducing tuition costs and helping universities to bridge the revenue gap. Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. Are universities adapting quick enough to this demand?
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Skyrocketing Category 2 Form 470s
Education Superhighway
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
The E-rate Category 2 program has been a game changer for school districts across America looking to upgrade their internal networks. Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. Current program set up.
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Top ten UK education blogs
Learning with 'e's
AUGUST 21, 2019
This blog comes in at number 4 for 2019, so I'm delighted that the metrics (visitor traffic, design, social media shares, post frequency, interactions, etc) support the many hours of effort I make each month to contribute to the knowledge of my learning community. Learning Spy - David Didau 4. Learning with 'e's - Steve Wheeler 5.
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The Awkward Truth About ‘Free College’—It Isn’t Truly Free
Edsurge
MARCH 18, 2021
But as soon as more people showed up to campuses in 2015, Tennessee higher ed leaders discovered a problem: Students were surprised by the additional costs of going to college. He’s seen students go to great lengths to avoid paying for books, sometimes to the detriment of their learning.
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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality
Waterford
MAY 11, 2020
But even over summer break, students still need educational opportunities so they can return to school strong and ready to learn more. One of the most common causes of the achievement gap , or the differences in scores between disadvantaged and advantaged children, is summer learning loss (also known as the summer slide).
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Announcing the 2015 State of the States report on school broadband connectivity
Education Superhighway
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
Today we are excited to announce the release of our first annual 2015 State of the States report on Internet connectivity in America’s K-12 public schools. Since then, thanks to the modernization of the E-rate program that made an additional $2.5 See national and state-by-state highlights or read the full report.
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Another way to quantify inequality inside colleges
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. The Urban Institute researchers calculated graduation rates by race and ethnicity in Virginia and Connecticut and found that white and Asian students graduate at higher rates than black and Latino students at most colleges. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Proof Points.
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A Teacher’s Guide to Toxic Stress in the Classroom
Waterford
JANUARY 14, 2020
Read on to learn what toxic stress is and how it can impact a student’s physical and mental well-being. 12] For that reason, it can be helpful to focus your classroom goals on learning and growth rather than on grades alone. Also, add some social-emotional learning (SEL) lessons to your curriculum alongside academic curriculum.
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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research
The Hechinger Report
MAY 20, 2020
School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. This problem has only been exacerbated by the coronavirus, as widespread school closures have forced districts to turn to online learning. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.
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Free Tool Provides a Roadmap—Literally—For Faster, Cheaper Broadband in Schools
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
As iPads, laptops and other learning gadgets increasingly make their way into K-12 schools, there’s one resource that more than 21 million students still lack access to in the United States: high-speed internet. “We They turned to E-rate, the $3.9 They turned to E-rate, the $3.9 Still, the tool isn’t for everybody.
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Chronic absences, poverty impacting outcomes for Mississippi’s children, report says
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 20, 2017
Graduation rates are up, teen births are down and the percentage of children with health insurance coverage has increased in recent years, according to a new report from KIDS COUNT, a project of the nonprofit Annie E. Kentucky had the lowest rate in the Southeast, at 60 percent. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.
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Education Superhighway
AUGUST 1, 2017
In 2015, Fort Smith Schools was the first district in the state to reach 200 kbps per student, exceeding the Federal Communications Commission’s recommended minimum of 100 kbps of Internet speed per student. The post Rural Broadband Month: Encouraging Equal Access to Digital Learning appeared first on EducationSuperHighway.
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Fourth Graders in Rhode Island Districts Using STEMscopes NGSS Digital Science Curriculum Achieve Higher Proficiency Rates on NECAP Science Assessment
techlearning
MARCH 19, 2018
The 2017 NECAP results show that the districts that used STEMscopes outperformed the rest of the state on their fourth grade proficiency rates in science. Specifically, the five STEMscopes districts had an average science proficiency rate of 54.1 percent, and the state of Rhode Island had an average science proficiency rate of 40.6
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Print or Digital Textbooks? What’s the Low-down?
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
But there’s another side to the story of print vs. digital , one that is at the core of why 2015 e-book sales dropped in the United States and the UK. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. It’s no wonder proponents of digital books are pushing for change.
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Looking to Grow in China? 3 Lessons for U.S. Edtech Companies
Edsurge
JUNE 30, 2016
China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 billion by 2018.
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New learning environments
Learning with 'e's
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Our final #EDENchat of 2015 focused on new learning environments, namely MOOCs, flipped classrooms and blended learning methods. Those who participated shared their experiences of MOOCs and flipped learning both as teachers and as learners. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.
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Kansas partners with EducationSuperHighway on the Connect and Learn Initiative to close the connectivity gap
Education Superhighway
DECEMBER 15, 2016
On November 16, Governor Brownback and Education Commissioner Watson announced the launch of the Kansas Connect and Learn Initiative in partnership with EducationSuperHighway. The 2016 Kansas Digital Learning Report indicates that 26% of Kansas school districts believe their network infrastructure is not digital learning ready.
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Facing Pressure on Enrollment, Will Colleges Support More Transfer Students?
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
They may intend to earn two years’ worth of general education credits at more affordable rates before transferring to a four-year college or university. In 2015-16, community colleges enrolled more than a third of dependent undergraduate students whose families earned less than $20,000 a year.
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Nearly all American classrooms can now connect to high-speed internet, effectively closing the “connectivity divide”
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Weekly Update.
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50 Wow, What a Year! Top SETDA Resources 2015
SETDA Says
DECEMBER 22, 2015
As the year winds down, we reflect on our accomplishments from 2015. Needless to say, SETDA had a busy year! Through the continued leadership. read more.
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28 Global K-12 Market for Personal PCs to Contract in 2016, Experts Project
Marketplace K-12
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S. Similar forces are said to contribute to a tightening in the global, self-paced e-learning market.). percent in all of 2015 and only 0.2 million shipments from 5.7
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Kitaboo on EdTech
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? If you draw a comparison between the two, i.e., traditional textbooks and interactive textbooks, you will see that e-textbooks clearly fare better than regular textbooks. They are more interactive and intuitive, and keep the students engaged in the learning process.
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64 U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role
Doug Levin
APRIL 21, 2016
.” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. FY 2015 $0. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.). FY 2013 $0.
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Education Superhighway
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
Today, we released our fourth annual State of the States report: Expanding Digital Learning to Every Classroom, Every Day and we are proud to announce that 40.7 million students still don’t have access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning, down from 6.5 Since 2015, the amount invested in Wi-Fi nearly doubled to $2.9
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 18, 2017
In late 2015, Education SuperHighway received a $20 million grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation, the charitable group of the chief executive of Facebook and his wife, a pediatrician. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. million more students that now have the minimum connectivity they need for digital learning.
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The 5 reasons schools don’t have better internet connectivity
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
The results also detail the impact of changes to the E-rate program, as well as the growing issue of digital equity for technology access outside of the classroom. Additionally, school systems with high monthly costs (over $50 per Mbps) for internet bandwidth decreased from 32 percent in 2014 to 19 percent in 2015.
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Rural Broadband Month: Encouraging Equal Access to Digital Learning
Education Superhighway
AUGUST 1, 2017
In 2015, Fort Smith Schools was the first district in the state to reach 200 kbps per student, exceeding the Federal Communications Commission’s recommended minimum of 100 kbps of Internet speed per student. The post Rural Broadband Month: Encouraging Equal Access to Digital Learning appeared first on EducationSuperHighway.
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Transcription and Accessibility—New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon
Edsurge
APRIL 13, 2018
The e-commerce giant announced that Amazon Transcribe , a service that converts audio from speech to text is partnering with Echo360, a video-platform for higher education institutions, to provide automated captioning of lectures that will be displayed side-by-side along the video. I think if the error rates were even lower.,
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In the marketplace: Science achievement skyrockets, makerspaces expand, and more
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. During the 2015-16 school year, teachers began using STEMscopes Texas as their primary science curriculum. What changed? Read more.
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New Webinar: "Coaching Skills for Library Leaders: Confident Conversations for Staff Development, Improvement, and Change (2023 Updated)"
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
JANUARY 5, 2023
Most managers and supervisors learn to have required conversations with their staff just by doing them, through on-the-job training, work experience, and by having been coached with skill by their bosses before them. LEARNING AGENDA: The need for coaching skills: what it is and isn’t. SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@library20.com
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