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Essential Guide to Digital Citizenship for CIPA and E-Rate

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The Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, more commonly known as E-rate, is a federal program through which schools and libraries can apply for funds to purchase hardware, internet access, and telecommunications to connect their students to learning opportunities. What is E-rate?

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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Our higher education system formed around libraries. Our primary and secondary education systems formed around teachers imparting knowledge. 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.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

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In a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books. higher education courseware business despite gains in digital—all because of secondary textbook market’s impact. Digital revenue grew to 34 percent from 32 percent the year prior.

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Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education

Bryan Alexander

Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order. Meanwhile, many faculty and students own or otherwise have access to hardware capable of capturing and displaying video. First, requiring live video means assuming students have access to infrastructure.

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How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

The Hechinger Report

Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of. Lawrence County, Tennessee, where its three high schools recently joined a college access effort that is closing the rural-nonrural education gap.

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Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education

Bryan Alexander

Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order. Meanwhile, many faculty and students own or otherwise have access to hardware capable of capturing and displaying video. First, requiring live video means assuming students have access to infrastructure.