Education Superhighway

APRIL 18, 2018

A recent update to our free school broadband price comparison tool , makes it easy for service providers to see the landscape of the connectivity gap so they may identify areas where they can help close it. And in recent months, data has been essential to our defense of the E-rate program. ENSURING NATIONWIDE DATA ACCURACY.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

As he was searching for ways to use state match funding to affordably upgrade his district’s Internet access, Dr. Williams consulted with State E-rate Coordinator Milan Eaton and sought the support of the Arizona Broadband for Education Initiative. Revised E-rate RFP Strategy. Leveraged Price Comparisons.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2016

Lubbock ISD’s successful investment in infrastructure to support them in the longterm is one of many examples of school districts taking advantage of the new E-rate modernization rules. Check out our Fiber Toolkit for free tools and resources including the RFP templates Lubbock used and the “Build Vs. Buy” comparison tool.

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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. With more E-Rate data comes a more detailed picture for the state of internet connectivity. million more students than in last year’s report, and a staggering 30.9

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

Custom rates are available for enterprise-level groups with up to 50 participants per space and an unlimited number of hosts. The company’s investments focus on data/machine learning, consumer e-commerce, and network/marketplace businesses. “We’ve noticed increased excitement and involvement from participants.”.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 9, 2019

For example, it’s essential to communicate how you intend to leverage funding sources such as the federal E-rate program, strategies involved in choosing hardware components, and plans for implementing the hardware in each school. While ensuring decision-makers are aware of the $3.9B Research and compare connectivity solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” The system sends students a text or e-mail 24 to 48 hours after a class, with one multiple-choice question about the material. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

This year, school districts seeking broadband upgrades are contending with the shortest-ever E-rate filing window, which means that there are just a few weeks left for service providers to find and bid on school district network services. Luckily, Compare & Connect K-12 can help. Identify Districts in Need.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

NAVIGATE E-RATE. Advice on E-rate program timeline and milestones. JOSH CHISOM, E-RATE SPECIALIST. A former E-rate consultant and Site Reviewer/Trainer/Auditor for the E-rate program, with over 20 years of experience in K-12., Provide real-time filing support and RFP development.

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eSpark

AUGUST 8, 2023

OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT and the Dall-E image generator, has been particularly scrutinized since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022. The data is supplemented by a group of human “reviewers” who rate and/or choose between two possible responses to a given prompt.

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Education Superhighway

MAY 13, 2016

The FCC is helping schools make the necessary investments in their broadband infrastructure through December 2014’s Second E-rate Modernization order , which provides public school districts and libraries with new options for funding fiber special construction projects. According to our data, however, nearly 12% of U.S.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. Pennsylvania district comparisons [link] Advanced Search Tool data options. Learn more about the SLIDE study: SLIDE Project SLIDE State Survey On Facebook and Twitter Kachel, Debra E. Lance, Keith Curry and Debra E. 2021, July).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

For some hardware, districts can comparison shop. While purchasing scenarios differ from product to product, and exact comparisons can be difficult to make because of variations in things such as warranties and device memories, price disparities in product costs remain a constant. million, a savings of just 0.66 million bill to $3.15

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Patterns & Repeatability P atterns & R e peatability are fundamental to establishing the reliability of any study finding. As noted above regarding patterns, but worth repeating: it is also crucial to explore implementation-related metrics and their interaction with student subgroups, such as completion rates and regularity of use.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? If you draw a comparison between the two, i.e., traditional textbooks and interactive textbooks, you will see that e-textbooks clearly fare better than regular textbooks. 4 E-Learning Obstacles in Higher Education. Digital Schools – Are they the future?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2017

Many schools and community organizations try to boost FAFSA completion rates by emphasizing the financial benefits of completing the FAFSA. By comparison, we found the nudges that emphasized the financial benefits of the FAFSA did not increase college enrollment. Related: Column E-Counseling 2.0:

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

As a result, we added new features that increase the tool’s power and ease of use, including: Revamped comparison tools using maps and filters that allow school districts to view how their broadband services and prices equate to those of neighboring school districts, as well as other school districts across the state.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

As a result, we added new features that increase the tool’s power and ease of use, including: Revamped comparison tools using maps and filters that allow school districts to view how their broadband services and prices equate to those of neighboring school districts, as well as other school districts across the state.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 15, 2016

In Appomattox County Schools in Virginia, for example, Technology Director Brette Arbogast used Compare & Connect K-12 to view price comparisons which allowed him to negotiate an upgrade of 4x more bandwidth at zero additional cost.

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Broadband E-rate Comparison Digital Learning 40

Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Some debated the merits of MOOCs, high attrition rates and the legitimacy of participating without completing a course. An inevitable comparison was made between the earlier cMOOCs (which were largely connectivist and student centred in their ethos) and the later xMOOCs (which are more commercially oriented and arguably less student centred).

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MOOC E-rate Blended Learning Flipped Classroom 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

By comparison, the national average is about 20.4 If E-rate didn’t fund our technology, we didn’t get it,” he said, referring to a federal program that makes telecommunications and Internet access more affordable for schools and libraries. Census data. Access to technology is another funding-related struggle. “If

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 One reason the gap between the numbers of minority teachers and minority students persists is because minority teachers leave the profession at higher rates than white teachers. “I Her mother, who works in the kitchen at a Chuck E. Hispanics account for 21.5

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Brainscape

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Affectionately dubbed the “Mother-of-all exams” by some wine nerds, the WSET Diploma’s third module (D3) on the principal still wines of the world is the Olympus Mons of the WSET solar system, making the other modules look like mildly inflamed pimples in comparison. What happens next?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. We are on track to see an increase in individualized homeschooling and e-learning, accompanied by the rising tide of gamification in education, promising a more engaging and dynamic learning experience. Today, over 2.9

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. We are on track to see an increase in individualized homeschooling and e-learning, accompanied by the rising tide of gamification in education, promising a more engaging and dynamic learning experience. Today, over 2.9

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

The department’s proposed language would require a student borrower to demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that their college intended to deceive them or had a reckless disregard for the truth in making claims about job-placement rates, credit transferability and other outcomes.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

In 2014, 65 percent of children lived in homes in which all available parents worked, according to the Kids Count Data Center , a project of the Annie E. Among other findings, the study found Head Start children had a 5 percent higher graduation rate than their non-Head Start siblings. The structure has changed. Casey Foundation.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

E-Rate has been, since the origin of the fund in 1996, the main way in which schools and libraries were supposedly guaranteed “reasonable rates” on telecommunications services. million in E-Rate rebates.). Bandwidth is necessary, and schools still struggle to provide it, particularly in rural areas.

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