Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2014, the Federal Communications Commission modernized the E-rate program with the objective of closing the K-12 digital divide within five years. The impact of E-rate modernization is most evident in the acceleration of the pace of upgrades in K-12 broadband networks. Why has E-rate modernization worked so well?

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The nonprofit broadband advocacy group found nearly 45 million students enjoy in-school access to high-speed internet connectivity, up from 39 million in 2017. MORE FROM EDTECH : Find the information you need to prepare for your E-Rate application. Tips for Moving Forward on E-Learning. The bad news is that 2.3

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition). Tagged on: July 23, 2017 ED warns schools of another widespread ransomware attack | Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter → In light of a recent widespread ransomware attack, the U.S. Strong opinions may be weakly held. I dislike fraudulent courses.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Common Sense, SETDA unveil toolkit to help states, schools apply for billions in federal aid under the E-rate program modernization. A new E-rate funding toolkit from Common Sense and SETDA explains the changes to the federal program, available funding, and best ways to apply for it.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

CIPA requires schools and libraries to install measures to protect children from obscene or harmful content in exchange for discounts offered by the E-rate program. .” In 2000, the FCC created the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA).

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Here are five of the most important victories for K-12 connectivity in 2017. In 2017, many states around the U.S. Thanks to E-rate, School Internet Costs Dropped to an All-Time Low. School Internet costs have been steadily dropping since E-rate’s critical modernization in 2014.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

Approximately 71 percent of K–12 teachers allowed students to use the internet to research subjects in class, according to a 2017 University of Phoenix survey. Seventy percent of U.S. teachers also assigned internet-based homework last year, according to the Pew Research Center. In March, a bipartisan group of U.S. by Erin Brereton.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

This facet of modern education transcends the traditional use of textbooks and blackboards, weaving digital tools seamlessly into the learning process (NETP, 2017)). ” Both critical thinking skills (e,g., This approach also emphasizes the development of soft skills such as leadership, teamwork, and communication.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2019

And e liminating early decision just got harder. percent) in 2017. More selective colleges are more likely to offer an early-decision plan (see figure 1) , but much of the growth in early decision has occurred at schools with high acceptance rates (see figure 2 ). . percent of four-year, nonprofit colleges) in 2012 to 179 (12.4

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GoConqr

MARCH 10, 2017

At the end of February we reached another significant milestone at GoConqr – more than 3 million e-learning members have registered in our platform , actively participating in the creation of a social learning platform. We list the most important contributions e-learning members make every day and how everyone can benefit from them: 1.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Connected Nation bases the analysis in its “Connect K-12 2020 Executive Summary” on FCC E-Rate application data for the 2020 federal fiscal year. One takeaway since the last time the Census was done in 2017 is that for the first time, online video viewing dominates screen activity of kids ages 0-8.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

OHDELA gets an F rating from the Ohio Department of Education, receiving failing marks on measures including students’ performance on state tests, academic growth and graduation rates. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Funding: Lastly, Texas passed a $25 million state matching fund in 2017. The school district couldn’t cover the cost of non-recurring construction to build fiber to their most rural school with just E-rate. Jim worked with his E-rate consultant at VST Services to release a Form 470 and RFP for lit fiber.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 20, 2018

Last week, the Washington state legislature appropriated $900,000 to further leverage funding from the federal E-rate program, which will bring greater connectivity to schools across the state and make available K-12 digital learning access grants.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

With the movement for no-tuition community college gaining momentum in more states and earning top billing in President Biden’s education agenda , experts in college access and affordability advise caution about using that potent four-letter word: f-r-e-e. There’s no free-and-reduced lunch at college.

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techlearning

MARCH 19, 2018

During the 2016-2017 school year, five public school districts in Rhode Island used STEMscopes NGSS in their elementary schools. 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.

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

Academic Pediatrics, 2017, 17(8), pp. Effects of a brief mindfulness meditation intervention on student stress and heart rate variability. Stempel, H., Cox-Martin, M., Bronsert, M., Dickinson, L.M., and Allison, M.A. Chronic School Absenteeism and the Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences. and Schonert-Reichl, K.A. Shearer, A.,

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

According to 2017 data from the Federal Communications Commission: 2 million students and 2.6 In short, our research on 2017 school connectivity reveals that while exceptional progress has been made to close the gap, too many of our students are still using dial-up speeds of the past to learn the skills they’ll need tomorrow.

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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. 2017 research shows that while students may read digital books faster, they don’t read them as closely , meaning they don’t get as much out of them.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 21, 2017

Last May, EducationSuperHighway partnered with Darby School District to connect all students to high-speed broadband so they can take advantage of digital learning in school year 2017. Leveraged E-rate modernization, which allowed them to pay for the non-recurring costs of the upgrade over a four-year period.

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Education Superhighway

MARCH 19, 2019

What were the biggest challenges back in 2017 when you began working on the Nevada Connect Kids Initiative? We closed that gap by contracting with a team of E-rate experts from E-rate Central and a network design engineer from Mighty River. These frontier areas have minimal infrastructure if any at all.

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

In demonstration of this theory, one study found that students who receive adaptive testing paired with individualized instruction show significantly better performance than their peers who receive more generalized instruction (Huey-Min, 2017). #3: Our team uses an 85% positive rating as a baseline. & Martinez, 1992). Bergan, J.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Apple also reached out with iPad Pros and other hardware at a discounted rate. A team from the University of Washington won the 2017 competition , getting $500,000. But Christmas came early for some higher-ed institutions in the form of freebies and discounts from big technology companies. Amazon gave Echo Dots. Charitable?

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Unfortunately, high-speed Internet wasn’t available at Garrison School until 2017. Prior to the 2017-2018 school year, the school received a fixed amount of Internet access every month. Learn how solving a once insurmountable challenge created incredible learning opportunities for students. The challenge.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 18, 2017

Common Sense Media Rating and Reviews. Best Apps for Teaching and Learning 2017 (AASL). I have the e-course you have been waiting for! This is the e-course you have been waiting for: the course to help you on your journey to becoming a Google for Education Certified Trainer ! © Shake Up Learning 2017. TechChef4U.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

According to the fact sheet that the White House recently released, here’s what we know: Adobe has delivered creativity and e-learning software to over 950,000 students and teachers at more than 1,450 schools and launched more than 20 district-wide Adobe & ConnectED programs. Did companies fully deliver on their ConnectED promises?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

They tend to have higher graduation rates, and their alumni networks provide powerful economic and political connections. W]e have progress to make,” University of Mississippi spokesman Rod Guajardo acknowledged in a statement. has one of the highest six-year graduation rates for Black students: 81 percent in 2019.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 21, 2017

Last May, EducationSuperHighway partnered with Darby School District to connect all students to high-speed broadband so they can take advantage of digital learning in school year 2017. Leveraged E-rate modernization. We are happy to share that Darby students are now connected to digitally-rich classrooms.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

For more than 20 years, the Federal Communications Commission has directed the multi-billion dollar E-rate program, which provides taxpayer-supported construction and service discounts that districts and libraries can use toward internet costs. A quarter of respondents rated the system neither easy nor difficult in the 2017 survey.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 The Chinese Ministry of Education is encouraging the growth of local MOOCs, with a policy that sets targets of 1,000 from Chinese universities by 2017 and 3,000 by 2020. billion by 2018.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 1, 2017

On July 13, 2017, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that the state had connected Glen Rose School District, the final Arkansas district awaiting high-speed Internet connectivity. In a July 2017 statement , FCC Chairman Ajit Pai designated August as Rural Broadband Month at the agency. at home either. Utilize these free RFP templates.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

From 2017-2020, she held an Instructional Coaching Fellowship with Google for Education. And we have 14 states that have teacher-run nonprofits that run the e-sports organizations for their state. So teachers together and the students that we serve are literally the largest e-sports organization in the country.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As a Title 1 district with 98 percent minority enrollment and nationally known for an above-average graduation rate, UCSD leaders credit much of the district’s success to a mission for technology equity. Shmoop will offer feedback on everything: topic, coherence, organization, and even nitpicky things like sentence structure and grammar.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. Appropriations: FY 2017: (in process) (President Obama request: $500,000,000). Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Although more than 20,000 Mississippi children age 5 and under are enrolled in Head Start, and Mississippi legislators have slowly added seats to the state’s highly-rated public preschool program, nearly half of the state’s 4-year-olds do not attend preschool at all, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count Data Center.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

(Similar forces are said to contribute to a tightening in the global, self-paced e-learning market.). market from 6 percent of the total shipments of non-desktop PC devices in 2015 to 18 percent in 2017. Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds. In the United States, the outlook is somewhat rosier.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Green Bay Area PS had a laptop cart model until 2017 when they established the Ninja Deployment initiative that resulted 1:1 devices at the secondary level and 1.5:1 Nebraska’s two historical bonds, one in 2014 and another in 2017 that positioned Omaha PS to take total advantage of the modernization of E-Rate.

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