Education Superhighway

JULY 8, 2019

As the State E-rate Director, Milan Eaton has been working on the Arizona Broadband for Education Initiative since it began in 2016. Tell us about your journey from working in the telecom industry to your role now as State E-rate Director for the Arizona Department of Education.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2019

What led you to become passionate about expanding broadband access, and what motivates you most about your role as Director of Instructional Policy and State E-rate Coordinator at DESE? They provided free technical assistance to education administrators in navigating the E-rate program.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 9, 2017

Tagged on: April 7, 2017 Cyber Criminals Sharing Millions of Higher Education Institutions’ E-mails and Passwords on The Dark Web | Digital Citizens Alliance → Cyber criminals are aggressively sharing credentials to.edu e-mail accounts - including stolen accounts, fake e-mails, and older e-mail accounts.

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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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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 16, 2018

With a Master’s Degree in Education in Instructional Technology, he understood both the technical nuances of school broadband and the real-life implications of classroom connectivity. In doing so, he learned about E-rate and its importance in funding a school district’s Internet access. Pitching Fiber to the School Board.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 9, 2017

Tagged on: April 7, 2017 Cyber Criminals Sharing Millions of Higher Education Institutions’ E-mails and Passwords on The Dark Web | Digital Citizens Alliance → Cyber criminals are aggressively sharing credentials to.edu e-mail accounts - including stolen accounts, fake e-mails, and older e-mail accounts.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The emergence of new industrial technologies has caused such rapid changes in manufacturing that employers are in constant need of workers who are technically advanced, process savvy, and natural problem solvers. Wacom spread awareness about the importance of using industry-standard equipment in CTE programs.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Connecting our nation’s schools, libraries, health clinics and other community anchor institutions (CAIs) to next generation high-speed broadband is an important national priority. The SHLB Action Plan gives policy makers a road map for designing a broadband strategy that promotes education, health care and community enrichment.”.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Moving to the cloud can be good for both vendors and schools It is in the interests of the edtech industry for educators to feel confident about using technology. According to the Global State of Information Security Survey 2015 , the number of detected incidents has increased at a compound growth rate of 66 percent since 2009.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

In its recent 2014 Measuring Broadband America Fixed Broadband Report , the FCC stated that, “the launch of a new generation of Ka band satellites represents an important advance in consumer-based satellite service which will benefit those consumers under-served by terrestrial alternatives.” The reason comes down to economics.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 15, 2015

If we intend to prepare students for the jobs of the modern economy, ensuring high-speed broadband access is a crucial first step. For lucky kids, the K-12 digital divide will soon be a memory, thanks to bold leadership from their governors to make high-speed broadband a priority and take steps to close the connectivity gap in their schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In rural districts, children and youth face profound obstacles—geographic isolation and long bus rides to school, frustratingly slow internet connections, limited course options, and low college-going rates. Specifically, only one-third of rural students matriculate in college compared to nearly half of urban students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

billion was spent on devices by K-12 schools in 2015, and the Software and Information Industry Association estimates that nearly $8.4 And EducationSuperHighway brought pricing transparency to school district broadband purchasing. The market research firm IDC estimates that $4.9 billion was spent on software.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install. With edtech usage higher than ever, the edtech industry will use this as an opportunity to evolve.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The proposed legislation received support across the ed-tech industry after it was announced. Through E-Rate, the Federal Communications Commission reinvested in digitally connecting all U.S. David McKinley (R-W.Va.), The Homework Gap is the cruelest part of the new digital divide. classrooms over the next five years.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Coursera also brought on a new CEO : Jeff Maggioncalda, whose previous job was in the financial planning industry. The Post and Courier reported on South Carolina’s charter schools this summer, noting that their graduation rate is half of that at traditional schools – just 42%. broadband privacy rules.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

“5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali. ” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history. There is No Technology Industry (There is Only Ideology). “ There is no ‘technology industry’ ,” technology writer and entrepreneur Anil Dash wrote in August.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Politics and Policies FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Connect to Compete , a new non-profit initiative that brings private industry and the non-profit sector together to help expand broadband adoption and promote digital literacy. Launches Rated JPG reports that beloved toy-maker LEGO is building its own social network.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 12,000 language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry. First, learn how to discover new tools rated for learning, mapped to Common Core, and see how other teachers are using them.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2019

But faster, more affordable broadband could help students navigate the effects of global warming evident in their own backyards. There’s barely any [industry] now that you can enter that doesn’t utilize the computer,” she said. Alaska is the final frontier for us in many respects,” Green-Robinson said.

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