Andrew Westrope
Managing Editor, Center for Digital Education at Government Technology
Managing editor, @CenterDigitalEd. MI native, BS in physiology, I love film+lit. We all contain multitudes. Tweets are mine and represent no one else.
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4 weeks ago |
govtech.com | Andrew Westrope
By some accounts, the loss of pandemic-era grant funding, diversity and equity initiatives, the Institute of Education Sciences and the U.S. Department of Education within a six-month span has K-12 districts across the U.S. reeling. But some education leaders, who have seen disruption many times before, remain sanguine about planning for the future.
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2 months ago |
govtech.com | Andrew Westrope
Co-leading the Jan. 17 event, Leslie Fisher, director of Fisher Technologies Inc., said the technological breakthroughs driving many new artificial intelligence (AI) tools could be game-changers for students with learning disabilities.
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2 months ago |
govtech.com | Andrew Westrope
ESSER is over. E-rate is in doubt. The future of the U.S. Department of Education is unclear. For all the fiscal turmoil of pandemic expenses and changing presidential administrations in recent years, some educators think long-term planning for technology in K-12 is only going to get harder. Amid so much uncertainty, panelists at the Future of Education Technology Conference in Orlando this month said the trick is to craft technology plans with the assumption of change built into them.
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2 months ago |
govtech.com | Andrew Westrope
The budgeting process for school districts was challenging enough before it necessarily involved so much attention on fast-moving and controversial technologies, but a few years into the artificial intelligence craze, administrators have learned some lessons.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
govtech.com | Andrew Westrope
Leading a Jan. 14 session focused on updates to E-rate and planning for its future, Beverly Sutherland, president of the consulting firm EdTechnologyFunds Inc., started with a recap of recent history. She said the program was established in 1996, modernized in 2015 and now funds over $4.68 billion in services for schools and libraries each year.
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