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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

Families are also aided by community groups like the Boston Public Library, which is lending Chromebooks and hot spot home kits to those who need them. BPS distributed 55,000 Chromebooks and 6,000 hot spots to students last year and paid for 2,000 Comcast internet vouchers. Our world is digital literacy now.

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Rangatiratanga: How Tapping Into New Zealand’s Indigenous Concepts Sparked New Educational Gains

Edsurge

weekly, for three years via micro finance to lease a Chromebook for their child. Teachers and researchers are measuring student engagement in learning outcomes, not absences from school. Children are coming to school engaged in their learning as never before. What’s been crucial has been the role of the families.