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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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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

In 2012, Chromebooks accounted for only 1% of the devices sold to US classrooms; now, they make up more than half of the edtech market. CIPA requires schools and libraries to install measures to protect children from obscene or harmful content in exchange for discounts offered by the E-rate program.

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Attitudes About Homeschooling May Get Unexpected Boost From a Year of Remote Learning

Edsurge

Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey finds homeschooling rates have more than doubled during the pandemic. For more evidence of increased pandemic appeal, the Census Bureau notes that while national homeschooling rates grew rapidly from 1999 to 2012, since then they’d held steady at about 3.3 Two surveys make it look that way.

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Mission (Almost) Accomplished: Nonprofit EducationSuperHighway Prepares to Sunset

Edsurge

Source: EducationSuperHighway But back in February 2012, when Marwell started the nonprofit, hitting those marks was almost unthinkable, says Jennifer Bergland, director of governmental relations at the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA), a nonprofit. In 2018, that number ticked up to 98 percent. Our value add is largely done.”

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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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How to use spaced repetition to study math

Brainscape

Brainscape's digital flashcards, which are delivered via a spaced repetition algorithm, require you to rate how well you knew the answer on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being "not at all" and 5 being "very well" If you rate a concept a 1, the algorithm will show you that flashcard again within minutes. Karpicke, J.

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OPINION: A boon for colleges and wealthy families, ‘early decision’ is unfair — and here to stay

The Hechinger Report

And e liminating early decision just got harder. percent of four-year, nonprofit colleges) in 2012 to 179 (12.4 More selective colleges are more likely to offer an early-decision plan (see figure 1) , but much of the growth in early decision has occurred at schools with high acceptance rates (see figure 2 ). . percent) in 2017.

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