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Meant to replace No Child Left Behind
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"The Higher Education Act, as amended, requires universities to give all students and prospective students information about the academic program and standards that must be met, as well as accreditation information."
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Part of reauthorizing of ESEA
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"The Act provides resources to states and communities to ensure that all students reach their full potential. It is based on the premise that students will reach higher levels of achievement when more is expected of them."
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Created as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and provides $2.25 billion annually in discounts to schools and libraries for telecommunications services, Internet access, and internal connections.
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Amendments made to Higher Education Act: Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships, Distance Education Demonstration Programs, Web-Based Education Commission
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Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, meant to promote access ot secondary education, provide flexibility of student aid.
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"This plan presented a far-reaching vision for the effective use of technology in elementary and secondary education to help the next generation of school children to be better educated and better prepared for the evolving demands of the new American economy."
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Children's Internet Protection Act is meant to help adminstrators protect children from accessing obscene or harmful content.
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Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT), allocates funds "directly to states based on the number of disadvantaged students eligible for federal assistance."
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Act that demands that schools provide the necessary resources for any and all students with disabilities.
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Part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Meant to award "grants to consortia led by higher education institutions to assure that graduating 'teacher candidates...are prepared to use modern information, communication, and learning tools.'"
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INCLUDED: Preparing Teachers for Digital Age Learners (PTDAL)
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Would have forced schools that participate in the E-Rate Program to bar minors' access to commercial social networking websites or chat rooms unless used with adult supervision. Denied in January of 2007
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Meant to help students enahnce learning through effective technology integration in the classroom.
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Standards created by International Society for Technology in education; gives roadmap for what students, teachers, and adminstartors should be able to do with technology in education.
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Introduced in 2009, meant to update and replace the EETT program
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Law meant to direct more than $100 billion to education, specifically made to provide funding for professional development, and classroom technology.
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Indiana choses to write own curriculum standards.
