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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. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland.

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How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori Education

Edsurge

Since 2016, a California company has set out to make Montessori mainstream through building and acquiring a network of schools and technologies, and offering professional development programs to prepare future Montessori teachers and leaders. It’s a grand vision—and one that has recently secured big funding from leading education investors.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. Susan Gentz is a partner at K20Connect, a consulting consortium of experts focused on education leadership, technology and policy.

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It’s A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One

MindShift

These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003. Just ask Ashley Mingo, a junior at the Hudson High School of Learning Technologies in New York City. About 1 in 5 children has a phone by age 8.

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What does the ‘metaverse’ mean for education?

The Hechinger Report

It’s the future, the next big frontier of the internet, if you ask technology CEOs or researchers. Experts say much of what we see marketed as the metaverse from education technology companies isn’t actually the metaverse. That may be because there’s no clear consensus on what the term means. It’s a misused term,” Platt said. “I

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What’s the Link Between a School’s Budget and Efficacy? Stanford University Challenges Prevailing Beliefs

Waterford

But if they have access to educational resources that help them catch up to their peers, they may have better test scores in eighth grade and therefore a high learning rate. For low SES homes, we provide technology and Internet access for the duration of the program. Journal of Literacy Research, December 2003, 35(4), pp.

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