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What's Really Getting in the Way of Teachers Embracing Edtech?

Edsurge

This project was supported by Google for Education and involved a number of partners, including our organization, WestEd. Instead, she added that it is important to center edtech around the educator; ultimately it is how teachers use that technology to advance their instructional goals that matters.

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OPINION: U.S. public schools should be federally funded

The Hechinger Report

Education funding is like any other public infrastructure investment. Even as distance-education removes the spatial component from public education — lessons no longer happen in a particular classroom, or at a particular school, but on the (ostensibly worldwide) web — these lines still separate children from one another.

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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

The Hechinger Report

Rita Green, the Washington state education chair for the NAACP, volunteered on the parent-teacher group at Rainier Beach High from 2007 to 2016. The real issue is Washington state just needs to fully fund education. A key priority at the meeting: Ensuring all children had access to a good education and skilled teachers.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Good for you. But that’s not my job. And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.).

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