The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls. They’re building their own countywide broadband network. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 1, 2017

In 2015, Fort Smith Schools was the first district in the state to reach 200 kbps per student, exceeding the Federal Communications Commission’s recommended minimum of 100 kbps of Internet speed per student. In a July 2017 statement , FCC Chairman Ajit Pai designated August as Rural Broadband Month at the agency. at home either.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

EducationSuperHighway today released its annual State of the States report highlighting the major progress that has been achieved to connect nearly every public school classroom to high-speed broadband. million more students to next-generation broadband and, 21,600 more schools to fiber infrastructure. million students and 2.6

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

As digital tools play an increasingly larger role in learning, states are targeting school broadband access for all students. As high-speed broadband internet becomes critical for student success in and beyond the classroom, a number of state education leaders are forging partnerships to strengthen school broadband throughout their districts.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 10, 2015

In our work over the past three years to understand and analyze school broadband connectivity and costs, we have discovered high variance in the prices that school districts in different areas of the country—and even within the same state and county—pay for Internet access.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 12, 2017

Today marks the release of our second annual “State of the States” report on the state of broadband connectivity in the nation’s K-12 public schools. took bipartisan action to upgrade their schools in 2016 – with 5 states connecting 100 percent of their students to high-speed broadband. 35 million students. million teachers.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The E-rate Category 2 program has been a game changer for school districts across America looking to upgrade their internal networks. Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. Current program set up.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. A new report from SETDA and Common Sense Kids Action focuses on K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity, state leadership for infrastructure, state broadband implementation highlights, and state advocacy for federal broadband support.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Improving network speed and capacity and increasing competition for broadband services remain significant challenges to districts as well, the survey reveals. The results also detail the impact of changes to the E-rate program, as well as the growing issue of digital equity for technology access outside of the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2016

Through Compare & Connect K-12, school district technology directors and superintendents can easily view broadband pricing and bandwidth information for school districts across the country. Users can explore bandwidth speeds and compare broadband service pricing with nearby school districts in a specific location or across the country.

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Broadband Tools E-rate Digital Learning 40

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 21, 2016

Today we released the beta version of Compare & Connect K-12 , an online tool that helps school district technology directors and superintendents view broadband services and bandwidth information for school districts across the country. View your school district and others on Compare & Connect K-12.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

More highlights from this year’s report: The number of students with access to the broadband they need for digital learning grew from 4 million in 2013 to 44.7 Since 2015, the amount invested in Wi-Fi nearly doubled to $2.9 billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019. billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

In late 2015, Education SuperHighway received a $20 million grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation, the charitable group of the chief executive of Facebook and his wife, a pediatrician. Do you think schools are using the new transparency provided by E-rate to negotiate better deals? Absolutely.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

We saw the first big leap of results in the 2015-16 year,” Marwell remembered. “I When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said. “We I said ‘OK, this actually could happen.’”. The early finish hasn’t changed the organization’s planned closing date of August 2020.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

September 14, 2015. The Office of the Governor and the Montana Office of Public Instruction have partnered with EducationSuperHighway to bring high-speed broadband to every school in Montana. We are excited to receive the support of ESH to help us meet new bandwidth targets.”.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Students now interview authors across the country via Skype and access books that match their interests and reading levels on e-readers. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of teachers surveyed by Pew reported using mobile phones in the classroom or to complete assignments, while almost half (45%) reported using e-readers and tablet computers.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2015

However, most of our time, focus, and resources are concentrated on at-school connections -- a sensible strategy when the state of technology at school has been severely lacking (see CoSN's 2014 E-Rate and Infrastructure Survey ). This piece was originally published on the CoSN blog on September 16, 2015.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

According to cybersecurity firm Symantec, 54 “zero-day vulnerabilities” (a security hole in platforms such as Microsoft Windows that can be exploited by hackers before the vendor can deliver a fix) were discovered in 2015, an increase of 125 percent from the prior year. Cybercrime is the next threat.

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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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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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E-rate Broadband Survey Analysis 79

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In a sneak peek of the results from the forthcoming CoSN third annual E-Rate & Broadband Survey, which will be available by mid-October, the vast majority of U.S. Step 5: Take advantage of special broadband offerings. These programs typically are available to low-income families (for example, broadband for $9.95

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Broadband Mobility E-rate Survey 40

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 28, 2015

Located on a large island in the middle of the Columbia River, Sauvie Island Academy faced several roadblocks to obtaining sufficient broadband speeds. Understand the Broadband Landscape. First, EducationSuperHighway’s network consultants conducted an in-depth analysis of the island’s broadband landscape.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Analysis 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. And EducationSuperHighway brought pricing transparency to school district broadband purchasing.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015 , introduced by Rep. Through E-Rate, the Federal Communications Commission reinvested in digitally connecting all U.S. “The Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015 (H.R. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and co-sponsored by Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.), classrooms over the next five years.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

million students who lack internet access, the nonprofit is also looking ahead to the future, when 1 Mbps per student becomes the new broadband benchmark. students with access to at least 100 kbps of broadband has increased from 4 million to 44.7 Last year, when 94 percent of districts had access to high-speed broadband and 6.5

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The Federal Communications Commission has issued a highly anticipated Report and Order (12/3/2019), that makes notable and permanent changes to E-rate rules for Category Two funding applications. ALL applicants, even those who started spending Category Two funding in 2015, will be able to continue using that funding in 2020.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” The 2015 rules are meant to prevent internet providers, such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, from controlling what people can watch and see on the internet. have access to high-speed internet and more than 118,000 school and libraries use the E-rate program. Now 94 percent of school districts in the U.S.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. ” These colleges no longer offer federal loans because of students’ high default rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

But faster, more affordable broadband could help students navigate the effects of global warming evident in their own backyards. New state leadership will likely shape the future of rural broadband, but in what ways is yet to be determined. Nome Public Schools students take state tests in the high school computer lab.

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Broadband Report Accessibility Video 86

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump. .”

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E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

True, 2015 was a record-breaking year for ed-tech funding – over $4 billion by my calculations. This fall, the EducationSuperHighway released a price comparison tool so that districts could see neighbors’ broadband costs and ideally leverage that information to get a better deal.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

A study released in 2015 found that colleges were increasingly turning to adjuncts to teach online classes, and those hiring patterns – that is, the hiring of part-time, contingent instructors rather than tenure-track professors – have likely continued in recent years as higher education has expanded its online offerings.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Not Net Neutrality, but another potential FCC move – ending the E-Rate program. Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Private Colleges Had 58 Millionaire Presidents in 2015.” More via Techcrunch.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced in October of last year that he’d step down at the end of 2015. 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.

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