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TCEA 2019: 5 Ways to Improve Your E-Rate Process

EdTech Magazine

TCEA 2019: 5 Ways to Improve Your E-Rate Process. Wed, 02/06/2019 - 10:04. Sovereign and Martinez presented several best practices that can guide districts to E-rate success. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Follow @EdTech_K12 on Twitter for continued TCEA 2019 coverage. Build an E-Rate Team in Your District.

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E-rate Tips: 4 Best Practices for Producing a Quality Form 471

Education Superhighway

Now that the E-rate Form 470/RFP window has closed, it’s time to turn our attention to the next step in the E-rate process: filing a quality Form 471 before the Wednesday, March 27, 2019 deadline. Do not be afraid to ask the winning vendor to assist in preparing this portion of the 471.

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After Net Neutrality, Experts Expect Changes to FCC’s E-Rate

Edsurge

But the tea leaves for E-Rate are pretty positive actually. Rather, it's centered in the popular E-Rate program, which has provided billions of dollars in broadband discounts and infrastructure upgrades to schools and libraries. Early in his tenure, Pai revoked an Obama-era progress report praising E-Rate modernization.

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Building a culture of academic integrity in a remote learning environment

Neo LMS

At Kansas State University, academic integrity violations jumped from 97 cases in the 2019 fall semester to 238 cases in the online-only 2020 spring semester. At University in Florida, compared to the 2019 spring semester, academic integrity violations increased by 65% in the 2020 semester. Teaching students proper citation rules.

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Another way to quantify inequality inside colleges

The Hechinger Report

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. Blacks and whites with the same smarts and money ought to be graduating at the same rates, right?

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Differentiating Instruction in Kindergarten and Elementary Grades with Laura Robb

The CoolCatTeacher

TeamMakers: Positively Impacting the Lives of Children through District-Wide Dreaming, Collaborating, and Change , published by Dave Burgess Publishing was published in 2019. Schools Full of Readers: Tools for Teachers, Coaches and leaders to Support Students , is also from 2019. Oh, and did I say it is free for teachers?

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Why the FCC’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl

Edsurge

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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