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After Net Neutrality, Experts Expect Changes to FCC’s E-Rate

Edsurge

But the tea leaves for E-Rate are pretty positive actually. Rather, it's centered in the popular E-Rate program, which has provided billions of dollars in broadband discounts and infrastructure upgrades to schools and libraries. Early in his tenure, Pai revoked an Obama-era progress report praising E-Rate modernization.

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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms

Waterford

This means that students can work at a rate that is most comfortable for them, which is useful for all learners.[11]. Blended Learning, Classroom and E-Learning. September 2006, Business Review Cambridge, 5(1). Flexibility is another strong benefit of blended learning.[9] and Staker, H. The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning.

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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

The literacy rate in America is marked by a gap between privileged and disadvantaged communities. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2006, 28(1), pp. Research has found that in severe cases, the summer slide can place students as much as three months behind their peers when they return to school in the fall.[3] Green, A.M.,

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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. FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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Five Learning Strategies that Work

Digital Promise

For each technique, the researchers provided a rating of its overall effectiveness as “high” “moderate” or “low.” Cepeda et al (2006) reviewed 254 studies, and found that students across studies recalled 10 percent more information after spaced study than after massed (all at one time) study.

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Community Colleges Have Long Powered the Economy. To Sustain That Role, They Must Innovate.

Edsurge

Compare that to companies today, like the e-commerce giant Amazon, which in 2019 reportedly employed 798,000 persons and is currently projected to employ more than 1 million by the end of 2020. During their period of peak growth in the mid-20th century, community colleges were being established at the average rate of one college per a week.

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

Edgenuity boasts that the first case study in its long list of “success stories” shows how 10th grade students using its program “demonstrated more than an eightfold increase in pass rates on state math tests.”. But it logged growth starting in the 2013-14 school year, two years before the school introduced Edgenuity.

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