E-rate reform has been a hot issue in ed tech for the past year, but all the conversations swirling around it can confuse what you really need to know. This summer, the FCC took the next step in E-rate reform, approving important changes to the program. The changes mostly concern: closing the Wi-Fi gap, maximizing E-rate spending, and making the E-rate administration and application processes more efficient.

A recent report from the Ford and MacArthur Foundations addresses the key need for more technology talent in government and civil society. The report, A Future of Failure? The Flow of Technology Talent into Government and Civil Society, stresses that institutions are desperate for technology talent, but have some trouble fostering sufficient human capacity.

The annual ISTE conference is always packed full of sessions, meetings with vendors on the exhibit floor, networking, crowds, and, almost always, heat and humidity. This year’s conference in Atlanta had plenty of all of the above and surpassed expectations in several categories, including humidity.

Who's going to the ISTE Annual Conference in a few weeks? A couple of CoSN staff members are heading down to Atlanta for it, and this week they're hard at work planning out their schedules for the event. We might be biased, but we think the CoSN CTO Forum will be the highlight.