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Progress Made on K–12 Connectivity, But Work Remains

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Teachers and students are well on their way to fulfilling the mission of seeing 99 percent of all schools connected to next-generation broadband, according to the “2018 State of States Report” from EducationSuperHighway. million students and 1,356 schools lack basic infrastructure needed for digital learning, according to the report. .

E-rate

E-rate Broadband Advocacy Report

Report: 41 percent of schools are under-connected

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. The report highlights the pivotal role state leaders and policymakers play in helping districts and schools implement high-speed broadband and wi-fi in schools. K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity.

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SETDA Highlights from 2017

SETDA Says

DECEMBER 21, 2017

2017 was a great year for state leadership for educational technology. SETDA engaged members, affiliates, private sector partners, and partner organizations around federal and state advocacy efforts and provided national leadership for broadband, digital instructional materials, and data interoperability.

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edWeb and CoSN Partner to Help Leaders in Rural School Districts

edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

The program will leverage CoSN’s expertise and network of district leaders to help rural districts with the unique challenges and opportunities that they face with acquiring and implementing technology. CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) is the premier professional association for school system technology leaders. About CoSN.

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E-rate funding toolkit aims to make applying easier

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Common Sense Kids Action, the advocacy arm of Common Sense Media, and SETDA will work together this year and in 2016 and 2017 to encourage digital leaders to file applications for E-rate program funding. “It is essential that every child in our country be able seamlessly access digital resources.

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Nearly all American classrooms can now connect to high-speed internet, effectively closing the “connectivity divide”

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote learning full time and with no end in sight. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. Coronavirus gave many just days. on April 10, 2020.

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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Mission (Almost) Accomplished: Nonprofit EducationSuperHighway Prepares to Sunset

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. District technology leaders, she adds, couldn’t fathom that internet service providers would come out and deliver fiber to their schools, much less at affordable rates.

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Broadband E-rate Advocacy Industry

16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL).

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How a passion for policy helped an educator get more funding for technology in schools

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This broadband leader has always had a passion for policy – especially when it came to funding for technology in schools. As a former teacher, tech coordinator, and chief technology officer, Jennifer Bergland now leads advocacy efforts as the Director of Governmental Relations at Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA).

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As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Teachers are trying to manage the education of hundreds of children, within a setup that lacks internet access and technology access,” said Honani, a member of the school’s parent advisory committee. “If Nearly 70 percent of public schools serving Native students were conducting digital learning, according to the survey.

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Digital Equity Act Would Provide $250M Annually to Address Digital Divide

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

Proponents of digital learning, as well as those committed to closing the nation's “homework gap,” rejoiced on Thursday when the U.S. Senate introduced a bill that would invest hundreds of millions of dollars to expand broadband access in communities that currently lack it. The same holds for U.S.

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Digital Divide Broadband Libraries Advocacy

The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that they’re poised to “revolutionize school”).

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Progress Made on K–12 Connectivity, But Work Remains

Report: 41 percent of schools are under-connected

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SETDA Highlights from 2017

edWeb and CoSN Partner to Help Leaders in Rural School Districts

E-rate funding toolkit aims to make applying easier

Nearly all American classrooms can now connect to high-speed internet, effectively closing the “connectivity divide”

A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

Mission (Almost) Accomplished: Nonprofit EducationSuperHighway Prepares to Sunset

16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

How a passion for policy helped an educator get more funding for technology in schools

As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools

Digital Equity Act Would Provide $250M Annually to Address Digital Divide

The Politics of Education Technology

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