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How Congress and the FCC Could Help Millions of Students Access Remote Learning

Edsurge

In the year 2020, amid a global pandemic, millions of American students are struggling to get online to do their schoolwork and communicate with others. The technology exists and is available to bridge this gap. It is time that Congress and the FCC allow E-rate support of off-campus educational activities.

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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

As the COVID-19 pandemic upended nearly every aspect of life, how school districts leveraged technology, engaged students in powerful learning, and supported learners and their families fundamentally shifted. The district invested in mobile hotspot vehicles that are deployed daily across eight areas of town. And the exemplars continue.

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

Edsurge

However, as industry and technology have evolved rapidly, inadequate higher education funding and rising costs due to inflation have affected higher education’s responsiveness. With such industrial, technological, infrastructural, societal and economic growth occurring in the country, higher education became seen as a key pathway to success.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

Edsurge

When the unemployment rate spiked during the spring of 2020, jobs that required a college degree declined more than those that didn’t, and new college graduates were hit the hardest. A growing number of technology companies are creating last-mile training opportunities to eliminate a key barrier to their own growth.

Training 189
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Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up

Edsurge

It estimates another 4,300 districts could be upgraded in the 2020-21 academic year. 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. It has also created a nifty visual dashboard with state-by-state drill downs.

Broadband 170
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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

In December 2010, The Journal –“t he leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education”– published an article with a 5-prong prediction for the following year. Will more schools embrace student-centric mobile devices? Billion has been invested in US K-12 education technology companies since 2010.

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Education in the Era of COVID-19: Why Connection Matters

Digital Promise

On top of that, knowing we’ve got an equity gap that exists in our district and that about 1,200 of our kids don’t even have access [to technology and the internet] was a tough pill to swallow. So, we’ve been trying to advocate for those mobile hotspots. Sitka School District prepares for meals on April 7, 2020.