'Mission Accomplished' on K-12 Internet Connectivity: A Conversation With Evan Marwell

Education Week: What happens when an energetic former tech entrepreneur and hedge-fund guy decides to wrap his mind around the significant—but decidedly unsexy—problem of sluggish, out-of-date internet connectivity in schools?

You get EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit that was a driving force behind the modernization of the federal E-rate program, one of the biggest success stories in education technology over the past decade. In fact, K-12 school connectivity has improved so much over the past few years that the organization recently declared "mission accomplished" and announced it is closing-up shop later this year.

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