E-Rate Funding Applications Total $3.9B for 2015
EdTech Magazine
MAY 20, 2015
Frank Smith 'These requests reflect long pent-up demand' says FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
K–12 Leaders Get Creative to Make the Case for Network Upgrades
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 20, 2019
I told them we were at 1 gig in 2013, we went up to 2 gigs in 2015, and now we need 10 gigs,” Phillips says. “We Schools today require vast amounts of bandwidth, but convincing leaders to pay for networking projects is often challenging, even with the Federal Communication Commission’s E-rate program subsidizing most of the costs.
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A Look Back at Digital Promise’s 2015
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 22, 2015
As we close 2015, I invite you to join me in reflecting on the year's events, our accomplishments and in looking forward to the year ahead. Perhaps the single most significant development in ensuring access was the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) modernization of the E-rate program.
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Why the FCC’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl
Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2018
For more than 20 years, the Federal Communications Commission has directed the multi-billion dollar E-rate program, which provides taxpayer-supported construction and service discounts that districts and libraries can use toward internet costs. A quarter of respondents rated the system neither easy nor difficult in the 2017 survey.
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Celebrating the 3rd anniversary of the NEO Blog
Neo LMS
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
From gamification to digital citizenship to PD for teachers to classroom robots and everything in between, the 102 posts that have been published on the NEO Blog in the last 12 months covered oh so many subjects related to education technology and e-learning for educational institutions. 8 Reasons to choose a cloud-based LMS for your school.
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E-rate Category 2 NPRM Update
Education Superhighway
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
EducationSuperHighway enthusiastically agrees with the Commission’s statement that the E-Rate Category 2 Rules implemented via the 2014 Modernization Orders have resulted in “more equitable and predictable” Category 2 funding, and fully supports the Commission’s intent to make these rules permanent. . FY 2016 – FY 2019).
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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms
Waterford
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
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. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2015, 59(2), pp. Flexibility is another strong benefit of blended learning.[9] and Staker, H. Mackay, S. & Pytash, K.E.
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E-rate Amortization Cap Suspension Update
Education Superhighway
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
On January 31, 2019, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) extending the Amortization Cap suspension first put into effect in 2015. This created a barrier for districts and providers from upgrading prior to 2015. The post E-rate Amortization Cap Suspension Update appeared first on EducationSuperHighway.
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45 $1B in E-rate funding left on the table
Education Superhighway
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
As the largest education technology program in the country, the Schools and Libraries program (E-rate) has transformed Internet access in our nation’s schools. In 2014, AASA played a lead role in modernizing the E-rate program, advocating for key changes such as: A policy update to make the program broadband-centric; and.
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45 The power of ed-tech in the developing world
Neo LMS
DECEMBER 14, 2017
I have tried to focus instead on actual case studies demonstrating the success of e-learning models in these environments. The pilot generated positive results with the average successful pass rate being 86% across topics. billion in education budget cuts made in 2015. Community Health Volunteer Training. Amazon in the Amazon.
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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality
Waterford
MAY 11, 2020
The literacy rate in America is marked by a gap between privileged and disadvantaged communities. SET Journal, 2015, 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] Retrieved from nytimes.com: [link]. Green, A.M.,
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?34.9 Million US Students—Up 10.4 Million since 2015—Now Connected Online
Edsurge
JANUARY 17, 2017
E-Rate , an FCC program that provides funding to help schools and libraries build fiber infrastructure and expand their wi-fi and broadband networks. The program offers a wealth of school internet data which EducationSuperHighway used for its first State of the States report , based on 6,500 reporting districts, in 2015.
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60 What do educators want from E-rate? Voice service, more C2 funding
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
Eighty-six percent of E-rate applicants participating in a recent survey said they are concerned about the Federal Communication Commission’s phase-out of support for voice service, according to recent data. According to FFL data, E-rate applicants in FY2015 requested a total of $3.92 billion.
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Only 28% of Districts Have Enough Bandwidth to Use Digital Learning Every Day
Edsurge
OCTOBER 2, 2018
E-rate modernization in 2015 made it possible for about 83 percent of districts to upgrade their Wi-Fi; prior to modernization, only about 14 percent of districts could do so. “If they hadn’t stepped up, we might still be trying to convince people 100 kbps is important,” Marwell said.
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5 things you don’t know about K-12 virtual learning
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
And finally, online skeptics are still talking about issues like lack of teacher support and low student success rates. According to Stratistics MRC , the global e-learning market accounted for $165.21 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach $275.10 percent compound annual growth rate during that time.
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7 Essentials to Successfully Apply, Secure and Get E-Rate Funded
techlearning
OCTOBER 15, 2015
Event status: Not started ( Register ) Date and time: Thursday, October 15, 2015 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Change time zone Duration: 1 hour Description: E-rate planning sea.
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The Awkward Truth About ‘Free College’—It Isn’t Truly Free
Edsurge
MARCH 18, 2021
But as soon as more people showed up to campuses in 2015, Tennessee higher ed leaders discovered a problem: Students were surprised by the additional costs of going to college. It even inspired President Obama to pitch a similar federal program. There’s no free-and-reduced lunch at college.
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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
OHDELA gets an F rating from the Ohio Department of Education, receiving failing marks on measures including students’ performance on state tests, academic growth and graduation rates. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.
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6 Tech Treasures for Special Ed Teachers (K-6)
The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 10, 2017
This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey. Listen Now. TechTreasures.
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Print or Digital Textbooks? What’s the Low-down?
Ask a Tech Teacher
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
But there’s another side to the story of print vs. digital , one that is at the core of why 2015 e-book sales dropped in the United States and the UK. Why spend a year studying information in a print textbook that doesn’t match the thinking or values of the school and its students?
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Another way to quantify inequality inside colleges
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
The Urban Institute researchers calculated graduation rates by race and ethnicity in Virginia and Connecticut and found that white and Asian students graduate at higher rates than black and Latino students at most colleges. Blacks and whites with the same smarts and money ought to be graduating at the same rates, right?
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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research
The Hechinger Report
MAY 20, 2020
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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PROOF POINTS: New higher ed data by race and ethnicity
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Before the pandemic, white, Black and Hispanic Americans were enrolling in college at about the same rates, especially when unemployment was high and jobs were hard to find. Asian Americans enrolled in college at much higher rates.) Data sources: Adult population collected by the Annie E. Census Bureau.
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Looking to Grow in China? 3 Lessons for U.S. Edtech Companies
Edsurge
JUNE 30, 2016
China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 billion by 2018.
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91 U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role
Doug Levin
APRIL 21, 2016
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 2015 $0. (Having said that, I have already committed to writing a series of posts specifically on the U.S. ” FY 2012 $0. FY 2013 $0. FY 2014 $0.
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PROOF POINTS: Asian American students lose more points in an AI essay grading study — but researchers don’t know why
The Hechinger Report
JULY 8, 2024
Diff” adjusts this raw number for the randomness of human ratings. A little background about this large bundle of essays : students across the nation had originally written these essays between 2015 and 2019 as part of state standardized exams or classroom assessments.
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125 Transcription and Accessibility—New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon
Edsurge
APRIL 13, 2018
The e-commerce giant announced that Amazon Transcribe , a service that converts audio from speech to text is partnering with Echo360, a video-platform for higher education institutions, to provide automated captioning of lectures that will be displayed side-by-side along the video. I think if the error rates were even lower.,
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Chronic absences, poverty impacting outcomes for Mississippi’s children, report says
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 20, 2017
Graduation rates are up, teen births are down and the percentage of children with health insurance coverage has increased in recent years, according to a new report from KIDS COUNT, a project of the nonprofit Annie E. Kentucky had the lowest rate in the Southeast, at 60 percent. Casey Foundation.
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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 4, 2019
K., & Bruegmann, E. The Learning Policy Institute says in their 2016 study, Well-designed mentoring programs improve retention rates for new teachers, as well as their attitudes, feelings of efficacy, and instructional skills.(32) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 24) Jackson, C. 25) Kraft, M. A., & Papay, J.
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Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds
Marketplace K-12
AUGUST 30, 2016
Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. billion drop in worldwide revenue from 2015 to 2021.
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Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 26, 2018
In 2015, a mere 25 percent of high school seniors were proficient in the subject, according to the National Center for Education Statistics , which produces the most reliable data on academic competency. After the June 2017 Regents, 25 of the 41 students who had repeatedly failed the state exam passed — a rate of 61 percent.
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Free Tool Provides a Roadmap—Literally—For Faster, Cheaper Broadband in Schools
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
“We spent a lot of time thinking about how we can improve the affordability [of broadband service for schools],” said Marwell, who was dubbed Visionary of the Year in 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle. They turned to E-rate, the $3.9 They turned to E-rate, the $3.9 But all of that data was kept private.
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60 A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)
Doug Levin
JULY 24, 2017
graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam. Tagged on: July 23, 2017 ED warns schools of another widespread ransomware attack | Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter → In light of a recent widespread ransomware attack, the U.S. So why do I still want schools to use them? Unified gets a $3.26-million
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Facing Pressure on Enrollment, Will Colleges Support More Transfer Students?
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
They may intend to earn two years’ worth of general education credits at more affordable rates before transferring to a four-year college or university. In 2015-16, community colleges enrolled more than a third of dependent undergraduate students whose families earned less than $20,000 a year.
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Teaching to the student, not the test
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 4, 2018
She watched the series and then built an entire curriculum around it (content rated TV-MA means the course is only open to juniors and seniors). Revere High School’s adjusted four-year graduation rate rose from 71.5 The school’s four-year adjusted graduation rate rose from 71.5 ethos to her teaching. percent in 2009 to 87.9
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White, Low-Income and Low-Achieving: Ohio Students Struggling in Online Charter Schools
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Towards the end of 2015, he dropped out. A study published in 2015 by Stanford University showed a consistent rate of low achievement from online students across 17 states. “It was a last resort, there were not many options, and he seemed to love technology,” said Beal’s mother, Jill Huennekens.
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Announcing the 2015 State of the States report on school broadband connectivity
Education Superhighway
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
Today we are excited to announce the release of our first annual 2015 State of the States report on Internet connectivity in America’s K-12 public schools. Since then, thanks to the modernization of the E-rate program that made an additional $2.5 See national and state-by-state highlights or read the full report.
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40 Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools
The Hechinger Report
JULY 15, 2018
The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. A monitor she is wearing as part of a PE project is going off, informing her she has reached her resting heart rate, and cueing her to make a note of her current activity.
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SETDA in the News: January 2015 Round Up
SETDA Says
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
January 2015 brought lots of renewed energy and excitement to SETDA. Best Practices Digital Content E-Rate ED Equity of Access In the News Interoperability OER Personalized Learning Policy' At the beginning of the month, the Board of Director’s announced a new.
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In an Internet minute
Learning with 'e's
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
In one minute there are over 2 million search queries on Google, 6 million Facebook views, over 200 million e-mails sent and 100,000 tweets. Mobile phones, tablets and laptops are portable gateways into the Internet, and it is predicted by 2015 that there will be twice as many mobile devices on the planet as there are humans.
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66 Digital Portfolios Position Students for Success in the Workforce
Edsurge
JULY 6, 2016
evidence that digital portfolios help in student development and increase self-awareness, only 31 percent of students say their institution requires this resource to graduate, according to a 2015 survey from Cengage Learning, which polled 3,251 students from more than 1,200 academic institutions. Yet despite. What Can Instructors Do?
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Top ten UK education blogs
Learning with 'e's
AUGUST 21, 2019
Learning with 'e's - Steve Wheeler 5. TeacherToolkit (ranked 1st in 2013, 2014, 2015) 2. Resourceaholic (ranked 10th in 2015 – highest mover) 3. Resourceaholic (ranked 10th in 2015 – highest mover) 3. ICT Evangelist (ranked 2nd in 2015) 4. Mr. P’s ICT Blog (ranked 7th in 2015) 5. Unported License.
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52 Rural students often go unnoticed by colleges. Can virtual counseling put them on the map?
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 11, 2019
In recent years, though, a variety of virtual counseling models have popped up, from College Possible’s Navigate program, which operates primarily via phone, text and e-mail, to a pilot from College Advising Corps, debuting this fall at two rural Texas high schools, which relies primarily on video conferencing. I’d never been to a college.”.
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eSchool News
AUGUST 4, 2016
AT&T charged two Florida school districts some of the highest telecommunications rates in the state and will face a fine for violating federal law and the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “lowest corresponding price” rule, the FCC said in a statement. The FCC said it plans to fine AT&T $106,425.
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