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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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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. Under her guidance, Albemarle County Public Schools was selected in 2015 for membership in the League of Innovative Schools.,

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. We have to make space for them to access the content.”.

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

The Hechinger Report

In the elementary school, art classes were cut. Ann Arbor Public Schools, a more affluent district with about 17,000 students at the time, was also predicting its enrollment to decline between 2015 and 2020. The district offered employees buyouts and didn’t fill vacancies. The middle school had to downsize its band program.

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Next Week - "Virtual Reality and Learning" Mini-Conference on Tuesday, March 29th

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Next Tuesday, March 29th, 2002, is our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," which will be held online (and for free). We currently have over 2,500 registrations! Virtual Reality was identified by the American Library Association as one of the 10 top library technology trends for the future.

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

They also have family case workers who help adults access services for which they’re eligible and set goals to help them move into steadier, better paying work. The only long-term study of the program, called the Head Start Impact Study, began following enrollees in 2002 and stayed with them through third grade. Photo: Paul J.

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Rising college rates spur Hispanic progress in higher education

The Hechinger Report

She enrolled in the fall of 2015, and immediately felt at home, she recalled. “I Between 2000 and 2015, the college-going rate among Hispanic high school graduates grew from 22 to 37 percent, according to the U.S. More than half of Hispanic students — 54 percent — now finish college within six years, up from 46 percent in 2002.