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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

The literacy rate in America is marked by a gap between privileged and disadvantaged communities. That way, every student has access to resources that can help them retain knowledge over the summer. Children who visit the library often can develop their love of learning over the summer.[1]. Krueger, A.B. Green, A.M., Feldman, P.,

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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

The Hechinger Report

NEW ORLEANS — School absences were rare for Lorenzo Elliott, the drum major of the George Washington Carver High School band and an honor roll student with a 96 percent attendance rate. Often, they can’t,” said Robert Schwartz , a visiting scholar at Temple University James E. His family said that police had picked him up.

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Best Websites to Help You Find Academic Books and Journal Articles

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Almost all of these tools provide extra features beside online search including, for instance, the ability to create personal libraries where you can save and organize your books, automated citations generation , social networking with other researchers, collaboration, and many more. Only you can see the articles in your library.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

edWeb.net

During the “ National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET) Virtual Post-Inauguration Awards and Policy Panel ,” the presenters discussed the intersection of technology and education and what’s needed to create sustainable, equitable access to a 21st century education.

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

NeverEndingSearch

6) (Note: Most of these tasks could authentically be taught in our libraries during the natural course of any inquiry project.). Triangulate: Try to verify the information in multiple sources, including traditional media and library databases. Check out the post That Chain E-Mail Your Friend Sent to You is (Likely) Bogus.

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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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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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