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

Doug Levin

Consider this post (light on analysis, heavy on the archiving of primary source material) one for the wonks, students, and historians. FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2013 $0. The Effectiveness of Educational Technology: Issues and Recommendations for the National Study (Mathematica Policy Research, 2003). ” FY 2012 $0.

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Homework: Good or Bad? Here Is What Research Says

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

One of the most comprehensive research studies on homework is a meta-analysis done by professor Harris Cooper and his colleagues (2006) and published in the journal Review of Educational Research. In this study, Cooper et al analyzed a large pool of research studies on homework conducted in the United States between between 1987 and 2003.

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For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns

The Hechinger Report

If the administration takes more of the NRA’s suggestions, I guess this would include replacing outside shrubbery with “thorn-bearing and sharp-leaved plant species,” which 2013 report. We can do our part in keeping schools safe by giving out hugs like candy on Halloween, helping kids feel a sense of belonging and welcome.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

Since she graduated in 2013, the name of the old high school had changed, but not much else. Back in 2013, more than a fifth of her senior class didn’t graduate. White students account for less than 5 percent of enrollment in these districts, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of state data.

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

The Hechinger Report

A referendum was placed on the ballot for November 12, 2013. Out of that total, 69 have a student body diverse enough to run integrated schools, but local officials instead chose to operate “racially identifiable” or segregated campuses, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of enrollment data. But in the end, that didn’t mean much.

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