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

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. By 2002, a new education law had replaced the program and a new presidential administration was in place.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

A Shapegrams membership gets you access to all Shapegrams and gives you a license to distribute them to your students. Learning in Hand started in 2002 as part of my classroom website. I taught fifth-graders at College View Elementary School. In 2006 I became a self-employed consultant.

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Why I Still Believe in the iPad’s Positive Impact on Classrooms

Edsurge

Way back in 2002, when Friendster was the biggest social network and people were gathering in Internet cafes, the State of Maine implemented the first 1:1 laptop initiative in the country. Accessibility: The iPad includes built-in features like text-to speech, dictation, and word prediction.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006. You go to Henrico County?

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When school districts fall into debt and can’t get out

The Hechinger Report

The atrium of Whitmore Lake High School, part of a nearly $48 million capital campaign approved by voters in 2006. Nationally, school district debt has grown substantially, from nearly $323 billion in 2006 to $443 billion in 2016, according to U.S. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. WHITMORE LAKE, Mich. Census data.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. Access to technology is another funding-related struggle. “If

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How A Strengths-Based Approach to Math Redefines Who Is “Smart”

MindShift

A group of young women who had graduated from high school between 1997 and 2006 sat at the front of the room crying and laughing about their experiences learning math at Railside High (a research pseudonym for the school). I felt like they cared for me,” said Martha Hernandez, who graduated in 2002 and is now a social worker.

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