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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

To address this divide, it is necessary yet insufficient to ensure all schools have access to the internet and devices. 1 McCaffrey, Lockwood, Koretz, & Hamilton, 2003; Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain, 2000; Rowan, Correnti & Miller, 2002; Wright, Horn, & Sanders, 1997. To learn more about our findings, read the full report.

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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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Is Online Education Good or Bad? And Is This Really the Right Question?

Digital Promise

A Meta Analysis of the Empirical Literature ) examined the literature between 1985 and 2002. This meta-analysis highlighted that some applications of online education were better than classroom instruction and some were worse. Another notable analysis was published by the US Department of Education in 2010.

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PROOF POINTS: Two studies find scattergrams reduce applications to elite colleges

The Hechinger Report

The company was the first to market scattergrams to schools in 2002 and says its product reaches nine million of the nation’s 15 million high school students. That doesn’t mean the researchers’ data analysis is wrong. However, attending an Ivy instead of a top public flagship didn’t increase a graduate’s income on average.

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

Edsurge

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. As Paul Courant points out, “the big problem is not further digitization” but access.

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Eligible for financial aid, nearly a million students never get it

The Hechinger Report

Last year alone, more than 900,000 low-income students who applied for and were found eligible for state financial aid for college never received it, because states ran out of money, according to a new analysis of state data by The Hechinger Report. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

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What Are the Implications of Distance Learning?

Education Superhighway

Department of Education’s most recent study of the topic, the percentage of public school districts whose high school students took distance learning courses rose from 30 percent in 2002 to 53 percent in 2010. An 2016 EdWeek analysis showed that 2 in 5 high schools did not offer physics, which is problematic in an era when S.T.E.M.