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Case Study: A “mega” school district negotiates a better deal

Education Superhighway

Utilizing EducationSuperHighway as a sounding board, AJ and her team created a strong E-rate Form 470, strengthening their positioning for service provider bids. The district was able to enhance their “bring-your-own-device” policy, which will help them save on overall device costs.

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Case Study: A “mega” school district negotiates a better deal

Education Superhighway

Utilizing EducationSuperHighway as a sounding board, AJ and her team created a strong E-rate Form 470, strengthening their positioning for service provider bids. The district was able to enhance their “bring-your-own-device” policy, which will help them save on overall device costs.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. The Effectiveness of Educational Technology: Issues and Recommendations for the National Study (Mathematica Policy Research, 2003). The post U.S.

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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

Many of the organizations, which are listed alphabetically, have free tools, research, case studies, and resources that can seamlessly be utilized and implemented at the district and school levels. NASSP advocates for the support principals need as well as policies and practices to support their leadership in today’s public schools.

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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

edWeb.net

Similarly, 28 states have policies and guidelines for external connections; 23 have them for internal wireless connections. Many times, the funding is not enough, and schools supplement from outside sources, including the E-Rate program. Included in the new report and accompanying website are case studies of success stories.

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10 Big Hurdles to Identifying and Educating the Nation’s Smartest Kids

MindShift

” Finn is not just a proud grandpa; he’s a long-established expert on education policy with the Fordham Institute and Hoover Institution. issue, plus case studies on gifted education from a dozen countries around the world. has three very bright granddaughters. educating its top performers? .” Europe and Asia.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.