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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’s national educational technology plans.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” More on the policy change via IHE. ” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” No mention that Lexia Learning is owned by Rosetta Stone.

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

NeverEndingSearch

NewseumED : Learning tools on media literacy. Time For Kids shares a video News Matters in which 6th graders discuss what they are learning about critical thinking and the news. Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources NYTimes Learning Network. critically about the information they come across.

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

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. But by 2003, the damage had already been done.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Challenges to accreditation and certification and the steady drumbeat of “everyone should learn to code” are connected to politics as well as to the business of ed-tech. It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history.