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Getting started: Your E-rate cheat sheet

eSchool News

It’s that time of year again–the federal E-rate program is getting underway, and with program updates and refreshes in recent years, you might need a primer on this year’s program. At the end of 2014, the Federal Communications Commission voted to increase funding to the federal E-rate program by $1.5

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Getting started: Your E-rate cheat sheet

eSchool News

It’s that time of year again–the federal E-rate program is getting underway, and with program updates and refreshes in recent years, you might need a primer on this year’s program. At the end of 2014, the Federal Communications Commission voted to increase funding to the federal E-rate program by $1.5

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Carolina Certified Version of OpenSciEd for Middle School Receives All-Green Rating from EdReports

eSchool News

BURLINGTON, NC – Leading school science supplier Carolina Biological Supply Company announced that its Certified Version of OpenSciEd for grades 6 to 8 received all-green ratings from non-profit EdReports. The review can definitely help take another burden off teachers and help them find high-quality materials for their classrooms.”

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Can Video Games Help Early Learners Grow?

Edsurge

28, children’s media company Moonbug Entertainment partnered with Outright Games to launch CoComelon: Play with JJ on Nintendo Switch. Video Game Design With the Child in Mind The definition of the term “video game” has evolved over time and even now, it varies across sectors. So it’s definitely a challenge,” she says.

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

Edsurge

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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

Digital Promise

The pressure put on a family, to tell them [they’re] responsible for pushing and driving [their] kid to try to engage in these activities, is definitely a barrier that we struggle with. The biggest problem that we’ve had with the few kids who don’t have access are the contracts that the companies have to have to get those installed.

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Bids to bring fiber internet to schools are denied funding seven times more often than other projects

The Hechinger Report

Its definition of what it means to be “rural” is beyond that which most Americans will ever come to know. Imagine how many customers a company could get running 10 miles of fiber somewhere else. Since 2014, a primary goal of the E-rate program has been to ensure affordable access to high-speed broadband in the nation’s schools.

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