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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

Because at-risk students don’t always have educational resources over the summer, they are particularly vulnerable to losing knowledge gained over the school year. The literacy rate in America is marked by a gap between privileged and disadvantaged communities. How Summer Learning Loss Widens the Achievement Gap.

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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

When I got connected on social media, my lens was expanded and I became aware additional organizations, as well as their supporting tools and resources. CCSSO also creates and shares a variety of tools and resources for school leaders. The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. Connect: www.fi.ncsu.edu , @FridayInstitute.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. FY 2001: $450,000,000. Legislative Authorization: Title II, Part D (Sections 2401-2422) of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

Edsurge

As one writing instructor posted to an e-mail list in 2005: “Am I being a stick-in-the-mud for for being horrified by students’ use of this source?”. EdSurge talked with Cummings about how Wikipedia has changed his teaching and why he thinks professors are changing their attitude about the anyone-can-edit resources. Oh, unquestionably.

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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

edWeb.net

Many times, the funding is not enough, and schools supplement from outside sources, including the E-Rate program. There are no cap limits, no throttle rates, and no chastising schools when they need extra bandwidth. Included in the new report and accompanying website are case studies of success stories.

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Isn’t it time to stop Wikipedia shaming?

NeverEndingSearch

The tasks: The Helpful task asked participants to select the resources they considered helpful to address their research prompt. The Cite task displayed the resources that the participants selected as helpful, and asked participants to select those they considered citable. Student simulation tasks (RSIC study).

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Students Collaborate on Supporting Bee Populations with Digital Tools

edWeb.net

Since the majority of their lessons and assignments are open educational resources (OER) they wanted to license their Operation Bee curriculum as OER. DeLaina Tonks has been involved in education since 1991 and has been the director at Mountain Heights Academy, the top-rated digital school in Utah, since 2009. About the Presenters.

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