Ensuring affordable home access to broadband for all students, especially those from low-income and at-risk families, will give educators the capacity to offer students important educational opportunities not otherwise available to them and to better meet the full range of student needs. The cable industry’s Adoption Plus (A+) proposal is an innovative approach to addressing the nation’s social challenges via education, technology and public-private partnerships. On behalf of educational technology leadership of state departments of education, we look forward to working with the industry, NTIA, the FCC, the US Department of Education and any and all others to comprehensively address the critical needs highlighted in the A+ program proposal.
We applaud Representatives Markey, Capps, and Matsui for their introduction of the e-Rate 2.0 Act in support of bolstering federal support of broadband for educational purposes. Since schools and libraries first began to receive telecommunications discounts in 1998, the e-Rate has been instrumental in increasing educational opportunities for all students, especially those from low-income and underserved communities. The move by Congress to reassess the program and strengthen it is most welcome. We look forward to the dialogue.
The chart identifies the primary categories for each of the major data initiatives related to K-12 education and then also the various users that benefit from each of these projects.
While states, districts, and schools have long collected education data, we still lack the ability to easily transform that data into information that will help guide policy or decisions affecting instruction, school administration, and operations. Education data and information systems need to be in service of learning. We must think systemically
about how to make information easily accessible to help guide decision-making in a way that is usable in support of student success. Simply put, we must raise the profile of data interoperability issues if we are serious about increasing learning opportunities for all of the nation’s students.
Education data and information systems need to be in service of learning. We must think systemically about how to make information easily accessible to help guide decision-making in a way that is usable in support of student success.
This document specifies the RESTful Application Programming Interface (API) that can be used to access or publish the digital representation of learning standards statements. The API permits CCSS statements to be published and accessed through a Published Agent or other software application.
