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EETT Survives First Step in Congressional Funding Process
Last week, the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee passed it’s version of the FY 11 appropriations bill and included $100 million for the Enhancing Education Through Technology program.
This funding level, while inadequate to serve the current need and a far cry from the program’s highest [...]
Tweeters Voice Support for Ed Tech Funding
Thank you for joining in yesterday’s call to support the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program at $500 million for FY 2011. Nearly 700 tweeters sent more than 1,500 messages, reaching a total readership of more than 300,000 readers, to support of federal funding for education technology. You’ve spoken and we here at ISTE will [...]
Tweet for Ed Tech Today!
Join the campaign! Advocates from across the country are tweeting for education technology funding today. Funding for classroom technology is in jeopardy, but together we can make our tweets heard and urge Congress to fund the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program at $500 million for FY 2011. President Obama provided no funding for the [...]
Educators Must Stand Up for Education: Tweet for Ed Tech May 12
“Why should I fight for education?” That statement was actually uttered a few short years ago by a state senator. I thought anyone with a brain could have answered that question, but then he went on to say something that changed the way I thought about advocacy. He simply said, “Give me something to fight [...]
Support EETT! Tweet for Ed Tech, Wed. May 12
Tip O’Neill – former Massachusetts congressman, Speaker of the House, and all around Washington powerhouse – is famous for saying that all politics is local. Even in this era of a flat world, 24-hour news cycle, and nonstop stream of information on the Internet, there is still no getting away from this belief, particularly when [...]
Join the Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech May 12
Funding for Classroom Technology is in jeopardy! Join ISTE members and education technology advocates from across the country for a day of blogging and tweeting in support of 21st century learning.
President Obama’s budget provides no funding for education technology. The Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program, which was funded at $100 million in 2010, is [...]
Join the Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech May 12
The 2011 federal budget eliminates funding for Enhancing Education Through Technology, or EETT, which is the only dedicated funding stream for education technology.
On Wednesday, May 12, educators, parents, administrators and students from around the country and across the world are asked to speak out to support funding for ed tech. Take a moment to send [...]
Educators in Action: Send Your Ed Tech Story to Congress
Share your passion and your story! We need to hear from you!
The Ed Tech Action Network (ETAN) is collecting stories from educators and administrators to show Congress that technology not only belongs in the classroom, but is a vital component of 21st century education.
President Obama’s proposed budget for FY2011 eliminates funding for the Enhancing Education [...]
The American Recovery Reinvestment Act Interview with Hilary Goldmann
If you are an educator, a parent of a student, or just an involved citizen, then you need to be thinking about how the American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds are going to be spent in your district and school. Realizing that this topic is immensely important, and in many ways as equally confusing, I decided to [...]
Focusing on Classrooms Rather than Schools
Last weekend at the Podstock 2009 conference in Wichita, Kansas, I was very interested to learn more about Kansas’ Technology Rich Classrooms (TRC) project. This is a competitive grant project utilizing EETT (Enhancing Education through Technology) federal dollars, but instead of focusing on entire school campuses the program focuses on individual CLASSROOMS. According to the [...]
