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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Here are just a few of their stories.

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The cost of not investing rural high speed Internet: Why one school upgraded to fiber

Education Superhighway

Jim Beasley’s mission to upgrade Llano Independent School District’s network began when he first started working there in 2005. Online testing: Every year, Jim had to ask the elementary school students to stop using online math tutorials during statewide high school and middle school mandated testing periods.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. At least one Duke University study suggested that the arrival of broadband service in North Carolina between 2000 and 2005 correlated with a small, but significant dip in reading and math scores for elementary school students.

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Rural schools have a teacher shortage. Why don’t people who live there, teach there?

The Hechinger Report

This school year, with the pandemic making it even harder to import teachers from elsewhere, education leaders in the state issued the highest number of emergency waivers — 122 — for unlicensed teachers to work in classrooms since at least 2005. She soon earned a degree in elementary education from Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

The agency issued an order to support affordable access to high-speed broadband in particular (not merely “access to the Internet”) and to boost access and bandwidth of schools’ WiFi networks. As part of these modernization efforts , in 2015 the funding cap for E-rate was increased to $3.9 ” Among them: an $8.71

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

And when Lyon helped knock down the former Seward Middle School in 2005, he said the wooden beams were so rotted he could push a pencil through them. The compromise does provide for electrifying school buses, lead pipe removal and expanded broadband access.

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