Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, average fourth and eighth grade math and reading scores fell for most states between 2019 and 2022. In math, fourth graders fell five points nationally since 2019. In 2019, 31 percent were considered below basic level. That’s up from the 2019 results, which showed 34 percent below basic.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 31, 2016

According to a report released by the Pew Research Center, approximately 5 of the 29 million households with school-aged children lack access to high quality broadband internet while at home. In the spring of 2016, the FCC voted to modernize the program to include broadband services for low income families.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For families in different income tiers the level of access remains unchanged from what it was in 2019, placing students from lower income families at further disadvantage. Presented to the legislature in May 2020, the plan aimed to make education more equitable by closing gaps in device ownership and broadband coverage across the state. “We

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Mon, 11/25/2019 - 12:51. Here are things to know about the hurdles the 2019 board members identified. . There’s a growing understanding that disparities in home broadband internet access put students at a disadvantage — typically those who already face obstacles because of low family income or race. shailaja.neela….

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2021

“Being in digital learning, we always talk about the importance of relationships and engagement,” says John Watson, the founder of the consultancy Evergreen Education Group, which started DLAC (pronounced dee-lac ) in 2019, making it one of the newer conferences on the circuit. “I DLAC’s live event portion does come with some caveats. “One

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 12:34. Tracy Smith, Parkland’s assistant to the superintendent for operations, spoke with EdTech about the district’s strategies and best practices for improving digital equity and shared her hopes for bringing broadband to every home in the Lehigh Valley region. . keara.dowd_i47Z.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2020

Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2020

Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

EducationSuperHighway today released its annual State of the States report highlighting the major progress that has been achieved to connect nearly every public school classroom to high-speed broadband. million more students to next-generation broadband and, 21,600 more schools to fiber infrastructure. million students and 2.6

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

A lack of access to digital devices and home broadband access, distractions in learning from home, technical glitches, and unfamiliarity with online teaching and learning best practices are just some of the factors that made remote learning less effective than in-person instruction, especially for students in under-resourced communities.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2019

Mon, 06/24/2019 - 13:57. Instead of discounts for landlines, for instance, the Federal Communications Commission , which oversees E-rate, shifted its focus to high-speed broadband ( Category 1 funding ) and technology such as firewalls, routers, access points and cabling that bring connectivity to classrooms (Category 2).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Schacht credits the growing availability of broadband internet in schools for helping “get his product into the hands of teachers directly.” Talks with Discovery Education initially began with this in mind around the end of 2019, according to Schacht. In August 2019, the Silver Spring, Md.-based

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In order to support digital and mobile learning, students in K-12 classrooms need access to sufficient bandwidth, scalable and affordable broadband infrastructure, and robust Wi-Fi. Related content: 6 realities about district broadband connections. And for the most part, they have it.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While 2019 NAEP scores show just under half of white fourth-grade students were reading at or above proficiency, the number drops to 18 percent , or roughly one in six, for Black students. Several efforts are underway. Recently, NAEP determined a new reading assessment framework aimed at making the test more equitable.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

As Jamienne Studley and I discussed in a recent Hechinger Report op-ed, the reality is that millions of Americans — in rural and urban areas alike, and including many underrepresented minorities — lack the reliable broadband connections needed to access postsecondary and K-12 education in a nation that remains in partial lockdown.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Here are things to know about the hurdles the 2019 board members identified. . There’s a growing understanding that disparities in home broadband internet access put students at a disadvantage — typically those who already face obstacles because of low family income or race. I contributed to the upcoming 2020 report. . Digital Equity.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Here are things to know about the hurdles the 2019 board members identified. . There’s a growing understanding that disparities in home broadband internet access put students at a disadvantage — typically those who already face obstacles because of low family income or race. I contributed to the upcoming 2020 report. . Digital Equity.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

But computing power, device adoption, pervasive broadband and exponentially networked collaboration platforms of the past decade have already moved us to a world of information abundance. From 2008 to 2019 we have witnessed a 4,000-plus percent expansion in the number of funded edtech startups, and the best startups can become unicorns.

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techlearning

JUNE 24, 2019

Results reveal that the E-rate program remains critical in establishing broadband connectivity for schools and libraries.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

Until 2019, really, the traditional means of acquiring connectivity via public or private Wi-Fi has demonstrated limitations, including an inability to efficiently cover large campuses and wide areas, and the dearth of offering security assurances schools and universities need from their networks.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The American Indian College Fund’s 2019-20 Student Ambassador cohort. Credit: Caitlin Alysse/American Indian College Fund 2019. Many offer much-needed internet service, providing access to some of the 35 percent of tribal land residents who do not have broadband service. The devastating results have been visible for a long time.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

BIOZONE has just published an exciting new AP Environmental Science title (in print and eBook) dedicated to addressing the College Board’s new APES Course & Exam Description (2019). Global climate change – latest scientific data (up to 2019 in some cases). Limited broadband access may be an obstacle for many students.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 11, 2019

A version of this post was originally published on April 4th, 2019 on Education Technology. For example, there is no point spending thousands of dollars on new equipment if you don’t have the required WiFi connectivity, infrastructure or broadband speed for it. Read more: Don’t forget about pedagogy when chasing technology!

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 1, 2020

Given the disruptions caused by the pandemic, the FCC Order: Waives the service implementation deadline for special construction for all funding year 2019 applicants and extends this deadline by one year, from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2021. Under Commission rules, applicants must complete special construction (e.g.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Broadband internet access and cloud computing made it easier to distribute educational software once sold on floppy disks and CD-ROMs. In 2019, venture capitalists invested $1.7 About 120 people registered for its last summer gathering in June 2019. Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable. billion in U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

According to a 2019 Pew Research Center report, 96 percent of adults own a cell phone and 81 percent own a smartphone. And broadband Internet connections aren’t available everywhere, especially in rural parts of the U.S. Here are three alternative ideas for how to ensure students can learn from home when necessary.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

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. 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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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2021

In attendance and making remarks will be Congresswoman Elaine Luria, who represents Virginia’s second district, Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni and Virginia Chief Broadband Advisor Evan Feinman. ” The project to connect Historical Jamestowne Island was completed in early 2020 – just in time for distance learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

The newest voices in that choir come from Bill and Melinda Gates, who declared that “ textbooks are becoming obsolete ” in their 2019 annual letter. Technologists from Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, almost a century apart, have predicted their demise. Not so fast, say education publishers and retailers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And there are indeed sharp disparities in home access to computers and reliable broadband service. We’ve taught more than 150,000 students fully online in the last 10 years — including 35,000 students in 2019. Yet, as this spring’s pivot to online learning showed us, equity remains a significant challenge.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The total amount of screen media time, not including screen time for school or homework, has remained relatively steady between 2015 and 2019 for tweens and is only slightly up for teens. The topline results carry a few surprises.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

Fast forward to 2019. 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.” At the same time, we knew that technology was nowhere near a silver bullet. I was humbled by these early teachers’ feedback and the learnings they shared.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

households with less than $30,000 in income have broadband at home. In mid-March, daily signups surged and messaging skyrocketed to more than double our highest volumes reached during the back-to-school season in 2019; by the end of the month, it was clear that this level of usage was our new baseline.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 13, 2019

Here’s how broadband data provided by school districts across the nation helps improve educational equity for America’s students: 1. Since its inception, E-rate has been instrumental in making K-12 broadband more affordable and accessible. Join us by updating your 2019 data. Support policy analysis and change.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

To learn more about the state of broadband connectivity in our nation’s schools and how to prepare for the future, read the 2019 State of the States report. A focus on the technology needs of modern schools and a commitment to collaboration will close help us continue to close the digital divide.

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