Why the FCC’s Decisions This Week Matter for Ed Tech

[Commentary] As New America’s Learning Technologies Project has emphasized, the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality decision is critical for enabling innovation in the burgeoning field of education technology. It’s not hard to imagine an environment where the current dominant companies producing online educational materials could afford to pay Internet service providers for faster access to customers, leaving behind innovative new start-ups. Under such an arrangement, emerging new content providers would be at an extreme disadvantage. To keep the Internet a level playing field, where new start-ups stand or fall on the merit of their content alone, it’s worth promoting and protecting a strong, open Internet.