Dear Secretary Duncan: Network Neutrality is an Education Issue

If comedian John Oliver can get the importance of network neutrality, then our US Department of Education should too.

New America’s Learning Technologies Project sent a letter to Secretary Arne Duncan urging him to recognize the risks posed to students’ educational opportunities under the new proposal from the Federal Communication Commission.

The proposal would essentially authorize “fast lanes” for online transmission of information, a move away from the approach known as net neutrality. The letter accompanied a series of comments submitted to the FCC on behalf of four education start-up companies: Codecademy, CodeCombat, GeneralAssembly, and OpenCurriculum.