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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls. They’re building their own countywide broadband network. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below.

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These schools are leveraging E-Rate for a complete digital transformation

eSchool News

Textbooks and blackboards have become a thing of the past in K-12 schools as educators collaborate with IT teams to shape a full digital core curriculum as part of their educational strategy for 2017 and beyond. billion in 2017.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Still more education news from the UK: “ Sam Gyimah replaces Jo Johnson as universities minister ,” The Times Higher Education reports. Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016. Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

But the struggling sector’s political giving is down since peaking in 2012,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Testing, Testing… Via the Hechinger Report : “On a classroom-based test for new teachers , black teachers score lower.” ” The article draws on the latest report from investment bank Berkery Noyes.

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Hack Education

” asks The Hechinger Report. Deregulation of for-profits is “likely,” Inside Higher Ed reports. “ Harvard ’s Computer Science 50: ‘Introduction to Computer Science I’ saw a significant drop in enrollment at Yale University as it kicks off its second year,” The Harvard Crimson reports.

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“ FCC Delays Are Keeping Broadband From Rural School Kids,” says Wired. ” Via The Verge : “Report finds more than half of Android apps for children are in violation of COPPA.” ” Research, “Research,” and Reports. Muñiz as the Education Department’s General Counsel.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “The Trump administration just failed to stop a climate lawsuit brought by 21 kids,” The Chicago Tribune reports. A teacher in front of a blackboard. “To get rural kids online, Microsoft wants to put Internet access on school buses ,” The Washington Post reports. But at what cost?”