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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. FY 2003 $700,500,000. Department of Education or other federal agencies) in and out of inclusion.

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America’s colleges struggle to envision the future of diversity on campus

The Hechinger Report

It just feels like we are in some kind of storm,” said Joyce E. Krislov was vice president and general counsel at the University of Michigan in 2003 when the Supreme Court ruled in Gratz v. The post America’s colleges struggle to envision the future of diversity on campus appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. Considering that community college students oftentimes have access to fewer resources, it seems at first that this would be counter-intuitive. ANDERSON, T (2003). References: Brooks, D.C.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

. “Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

In its glossary, Stony Brook University’s Center for News Literacy defines news literacy as: The ability to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports, whether they come via print, television or the Internet. Our kids need new types of filters. Post-truth or truthiness.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump. .”

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

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Tamika Moore for The Hechinger Report. North Smithfield Manor has long been zoned for Gardendale schools as part of the district’s integration efforts, and Williams had planned her life around sending her children to Gardendale High, where more than seven out of 10 graduates enroll in college—one of the highest rates in the district.

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