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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. Ashley LaCroix, a school technology integrator.

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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. Finally in 2001, the school leadership and the parents jointly engaged in a painful analysis that lead to a profound conclusion: If we don’t change, the results won’t change. What’s been crucial has been the role of the families. million (US $7.6

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Is the pandemic our chance to reimagine education for students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

A graduate of Detroit Public Schools and the first in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree, Vaughn adopted a newborn named Daniel in 2001 and, later, his biological younger brother, Jacob. Morales added that education companies made a few services that worked for his students free this spring, but that’s no longer the case.

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Some Families Hope Pandemic Can Spur Change in Special Education

MindShift

A graduate of Detroit Public Schools and the first in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree, Vaughn adopted a newborn named Daniel in 2001 and, later, his biological younger brother, Jacob. Morales added that education companies made a few services that worked for his students free this spring, but that’s no longer the case.