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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

Teachers should remember that not every family may be able to afford Internet access, so old-fashioned printed notes and bulletins still have a place in the student’s backpack. October 2001. September 2017. November 2017. Sources: “Teaching Digital Natives.” ASCD InService. Adobe Blog. September 2018. Prensky, Marc.

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Want to help public education thrive in 2017? Support The Hechinger Report!

The Hechinger Report

The post-truth era fit neatly between enactments of No Child Left Behind in 2001 – a touted bipartisan compromise – and its follow-up, the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015 , which essentially said, “we were better off before 2001.”. Help us bolster better journalism about education in 2017. Support The Hechinger Report!

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Broken system: Child care subsidies ensure low-quality, limit access

The Hechinger Report

Ultimately, by offering the poorest families insufficient financial assistance to access excellent child care and by denying help to millions more low-income families who can’t afford such care, the federal government is effectively lowering the quality of child care available to a huge segment of the American public. “If Elizabeth Warren.

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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

edWeb.net

If the workday of an adult typically requires seamless broadband access, then it’s reasonable that today’s students need the same access during their school day. The key is the state leadership to make broadband accessible to all. More important, states are starting to recognize the need for equitable access off site.

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OPINION: The fight for Black lives needs to happen in schools

The Hechinger Report

A study in The Journal for Community Health found that the rate of death by suicide among Black girls ages 13 to 19 rose 182 percent between 2001 and 2017. The suicide rate among 13- to 30-year-olds is growing fastest in the Black community, rising over 50 percent between 2010 and 2019. These numbers demand action.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. That last rejection in spring 2017 was the last straw for Thorne. Why didn’t you tell us?

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Where poor students pay more than rich ones

The Hechinger Report

Lowest-income students at Brenau, in fact, have paid more in net price than highest-income ones every year since 2017-18, and the gap has been more than $3,000 in all those years. Between 2001 and 2017, 339 public universities spent $32 billion in institutional aid on students who did not have financial need, according to a New America study.

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