For at least the duration of this school year, Comcast and all other internet providers need to make internet access absolutely free for all low-income families. There…
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[Education Dive] FCC waives E-rate gift rules as coronavirus closures highlight remote learning inequity
Future Ready Schools, a school innovation-focused initiative of the Alliance for Excellent Education, is also urging educators to sign a letter petitioning Pai to expand the E-rate…
Read More[Wall Street Journal] U.S. Coronavirus Response May Include Funds to Boost Internet Access
Being stuck at home is bad enough. Now imagine being stuck at home without the internet. That is the problem for tens of millions of…
Read More[POLITICO Morning Education]Schools Ask FCC to Use Federal Program To Fund Home Internet Access for Students
More than 7,500 district superintendents, school board members, principals, teachers, parents and others are urging the FCC to allow the federal E-rate program to fund…
Read More[Bloomberg Law] Homework Gap’ Spurs Call for FCC to Boost Pupils’ Home Internet
School leaders across the country are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to direct money from a program for internet access on campuses to millions…
Read More[Hechinger Report] Future of Learning
As schools across the Washington, D.C. metro area announced closures, Siobhan Davenport and her colleagues at Crittenton Services of Greater Washington (CSGW), a nonprofit that…
Read More[T.H.E Journal] Educators Implore FCC to Cover Home Internet in E-rate Expansion
It’s time for E-rate to cover the cost of home internet access. That’s the word from 7,664 teachers, education IT people, principals and superintendents who…
Read More[Skyward] The Future-Ready Progress Report
District leaders find themselves challenged to forecast the future. Which career paths are students likely to pursue after they walk the graduation stage? With technology…
Read More[Tech & Learning] Future Ready Schools Launches New Program for School Board Members
Future Ready Schools® today announced a new program for school board members that will be developed by FRS practitioners in conjunction with the National School…
Read More[Education Dive] Future Ready Schools partnership to strengthen school boards
Future Ready Schools, an initiative of the Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed), announced a new partnership with the National School Boards Association to provide school board members…
Read MoreCollaborating, Curating, and OER: BCPS School Librarian and Teacher Partnerships
The Future Ready Librarians (FRL) framework supports our continuing efforts to develop purposeful partnerships between school librarians and teachers and to connect our school libraries…
Read MoreISTE 2018 Provides Megaphone for Edtech Groups
Groups like Common Sense and Future Ready Schools announced their latest efforts to ensure the effective use of technology in education.
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