The act, which specifies that telecommunications companies have to provide "services to elementary schools, secondary schools, and libraries for educational purposes at rates less than the amounts charged for similar services to other parties, " was strongly supported by President Clinton as a contribution towards getting schools connected to the Internet.
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Although 90% of secondary schools are connected to the Internet at the moment, only 30% of primary schools are.
Not all online schools are connected to brick-and-mortar universities.
Almost 90% of our schools are already connected to the Internet.
Most primary schools are not connected to the electric grid.
This was because many schools had BASIC terminals that connected to time sharing services.
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Gore Tax advocates gloss over the fact that 80% of our schools and libraries are already connected to the Internet, with that figure increasing impressively each year.
We need to support educational approaches that emphasize values, that build cultures in our classrooms, and schools that help kids navigate this newly connected and transparent world, achieve success in their lives and out-behave the competition.
All programmes offered at the Centres are extended to the school unit and are connected to issues of sustainable development in schools.
After all, these are the individuals investing considerable time, resources, and training to carry their schools into a mobile-based, cloud-connected future.
But social networking tools are only the beginning of the efforts schools are making to harness their students' willingness to live an always connected lifestyle.
Access to devices: There are kids in our Bay Area public schools in almost every class who still do not have access to a connected device at home.
This third annual edition of The Princeton Review's Most Connected Campuses examines the technological capabilities of the country's best schools and tells you which 25 campuses are the closest to the cutting edge.
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As a partner of the Malaysian Ministry of Education's 1BestariNet project, Yes 4G's parent company YTL Communications has so far ensured that 7, 000 local state schools are covered by its WiMAX network, with the remaining 3, 000 to be connected over the next six months.
The result is America's Most Connected Campuses, a list of the most wired--and, increasingly, wireless--schools in the country, measuring infrastructure available to students.
We also recognized the importance of working with schools, because we knew that they could play a vital role in responding to violence, and helping survivors get connected with services.
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