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

The Hechinger Report

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

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Previously, Elizabeth worked as an elementary teacher in Nevada and a residential counselor in Montana. Recent publications and projects include Navigating the Digital Shift, Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States, OER Case Studies: Implementation in Action, The Broadband Imperative and From Data to Information.

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COLUMN: Standardized tests aren’t the problem, it’s how we use them

The Hechinger Report

Limited broadband and computer access, home and food insecurity, deferred maintenance on buildings, uneven employment benefits among nonteaching school staff and fewer resources for schools that serve children of color were throttling academic achievement before the pandemic, and they will certainly widen achievement gaps during and after.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

to purchase what would have cost $100 in 2001 , he said. The compromise does provide for electrifying school buses, lead pipe removal and expanded broadband access. In a February presentation to the school board’s finance committee, Lyon said the longer these projects are put off, the more expensive they become.

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