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What You Need to Know About E-rate

Digital Promise

One of those programs is the Universal Service Program for Schools and Libraries, better known as E-rate. E-rate helps schools and libraries get affordable Internet access by discounting the cost of service based on the school’s location – urban or rural – and the percentage of low-income students served.

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Mission (Almost) Accomplished: Nonprofit EducationSuperHighway Prepares to Sunset

Edsurge

After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. District technology leaders, she adds, couldn’t fathom that internet service providers would come out and deliver fiber to their schools, much less at affordable rates.

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EducationSuperHighway Applauds Historic Action by FCC to Connect All of America’s Students to High-Speed Broadband

Education Superhighway

SAN FRANCISCO — December 11, 2014 — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted today to approve Chairman Wheeler’s latest proposal to complete modernization of the 18-year-old federal E-rate program. billion per year to account for growing bandwidth demand.

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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 2012 $0. 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies). Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.). FY 2013 $0.

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Lessons from Digital Learning Day

Educator Innovator

By Kathleen Costanza Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. If the control involved 12 hours of work a week over one semester, but the treatment required only 4 hours a week, that’s a 3x improvement in learning efficiency. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

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3 things schools must know about the rising “phigital” student

eSchool News

And though Gen Z is starting to graduate this year, there’s still a massive amount of them within various levels of education—nearly 73 million (born between 1995 and 2012), according to Time magazine. Already, K-12 schools are beginning to leverage the E-Rate for a digital transformation [read here and also here ].

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