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

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2003 $700,500,000.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). Lesson study is used in the majority of elementary schools and middle schools in Japan but is rare in high schools ( Yoshida, 2002 ).

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An upscale Florida auction yields millions for local preschool programs

The Hechinger Report

Starting in 2002, the foundation has dedicated more than $40 million of those dollars to early education initiatives, and the results have been transformative, said foundation CEO Maria Jimenez-Laura. million from the foundation since 2003. million from the foundation since 2003. “If The center has received $13.7

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Five Ways Design and Making Can Help Science Education Come Alive

MindShift

We have to trust that allowing our students to tinker, question and invent, as early as elementary and middle school, will help them to develop positive identities that encourage a lifelong love of science, math and the creative process. Assessment is real time and authentic. 2003; Cornett 1986). Benefit No. Benefit No.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Hear how schools across the United States are developing students'' global competence through the use of authentic, project-based learning experiences and portfolio assessment. Brandon holds degrees from the State University of New York at Fredonia in elementary education, curriculum and instruction, and educational administration.

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Detroit schools are effectively barred from raising funds to repair their buildings. Federal money is the city’s only hope

The Hechinger Report

While a school district assessment found Western will need $13.5 On a sticky 86-degree June day in Detroit, Maybury Elementary School’s sunbaked windows stand open in the occupied classrooms in the non-air-conditioned building. For now, children walk elementary school floors buckled so badly they appear to have waves.

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How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision

The Hechinger Report

The author of the latest feasibility study—an expert who had been brought in by other splinter districts—agreed with that assessment. Gardendale would start with two elementary schools and would have to work in “good faith” to earn the middle and high schools. But by 2003, the damage had already been done. Bush and Barack Obama.

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