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Ensuring Access to Robust Broadband for ALL Students

Doug Levin

Benjamin Herold of Education Week has put together a real cracker of a series on the challenges of ensuring school broadband access in rural communities – and how E-rate (pre- and post-modernization) is helping to address the situation. We should demand more of our political leaders and from our education advocacy organizations.

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To boost teacher morale, reimagine the teacher role

eSchool News

As a result, teachers experience high levels of work-related stress, which leads to declining job satisfaction and higher turnover rates. Merrill, E., Sources: Learning Policy Institute & Educators for Excellence.) Additionally, teachers don’t stay in the profession as long as they used to. Source: Ingersoll, R.

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Nearly all American classrooms can now connect to high-speed internet, effectively closing the “connectivity divide”

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Meghan E. The shift has coincided with improved test scores and graduation rates. “I based education reform advocacy group. The post School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Cybercriminals come for schools — and schools aren’t ready

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. We’ve been saying this is a five-alarm fire for the last two years,” he said.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” The e-book subscription service has raised $21.45 million total. Via The New York Times : “Free Play or Flashcards?