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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. FY 2010 $100,000,000.

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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 ). 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). 2008): Successful Collaboration.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. From 2009–2012 he served as a trustee for the State University of New York as an appointee of the governor. Does everyone feel valued?

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

Conner also identified three levels of innovation that need to occur, starting with the application of efficiency logic to smaller systems like classroom design. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. An educator since 1973, Ray has been a teacher, vice principal, principal, and superintendent.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur Breaking down stereotypes.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

The amount of time they’ve spent in the classroom (“seat time”) doesn’t matter, nor does the number of credits they’ve accumulated. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 Nellie Mae, which had $430 million in assets at the end of 2009, began investing its own money in Maine, too. A local success story. The state ramps up.

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Working and conferencing with a rubric: easy tweaks for effort + quality

The Cornerstone for Teachers

All it takes, too, is for one student to ask how to earn it, and others will follow, making the classroom dynamic more productive and focused. He was a secondary Language Arts teacher in an urban school setting, and is currently a middle school principal. Include a process criteria in your rubric.