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8 Key Focus Areas for Developing a Re-Entry Plan

A Principal's Reflections

Many students have been traumatized over the past couple of months as a result of inadequate access to food, social isolation, parents being laid off, and in some cases, the lack of a caring adult in the home. Additionally, the digital divide is wider than many perceived. We can ill-afford not to address this fact.

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

Edsurge

Ertmer and Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich that refers not just to whether technology is used in the classroom but also when and how teachers use technology to improve learning outcomes. Ballard understands that better than most.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. State and local budgets are shrinking and, absent federal support, schools will flounder.

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Why the Education Expenses are Rising and How to Deal with it?

Evelyn Learning

However, many students find themselves stuck on the cost and perceive it as the primary determinant of their access to education. A classroom has become an e-classroom, with tablets on each and every desk. A lot of problems are going around related to social-economic aspects, historical aspects, digital divide, etc.

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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. A key priority at the meeting: Ensuring all children had access to a good education and skilled teachers. Related: A parent-led effort to close the digital divide. García said.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, The Flipped Classroom". Um, they do.)

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