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This month Connected Nation is raising awareness about digital learning programs and partners across the country. Today’s blog is shining a spotlight on the FCC Lifeline Broadband Pilot program which launched last week. These pilots are underway in several states to test how best to increase adoption of high-speed Internet among low-income Americans, a group with strikingly low adoption levels. The FCC established the Lifeline broadband pilot program last year as a competitive selection program for projects to gather data regarding what programs would result in higher adoption rates among low-income consumers.  Connected Nation is playing...

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This week Connected Nation is excited to be joining fellow thought leaders in Chicago for the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America meetings to discuss opportunities and challenges in advancing education technology across the country.CN’s Brent Legg is a participant in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) Education working group. The persistent poor performance of many American students in math and science has serious implications for the long-term competitiveness of America’s economy, according to the CGI website. This Working Group will build off successes from CGI America 2011 and 2012 and will focus on developing...

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