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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 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. 8] Before school gets out for the summer, connect parents with guided reading activities and summer learning programs for elementary students. Scholastic Instructor, May 2005, 114(8), pp. Krueger, A.B. Summers Are for Learning.

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The cost of not investing rural high speed Internet: Why one school upgraded to fiber

Education Superhighway

Jim Beasley’s mission to upgrade Llano Independent School District’s network began when he first started working there in 2005. Online testing: Every year, Jim had to ask the elementary school students to stop using online math tutorials during statewide high school and middle school mandated testing periods.

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

eSpark

Our team uses an 85% positive rating as a baseline. Mathematics Growth in Early Elementary School: The Roles of Beginning Knowledge, Student Engagement, and Instruction. Mathematics Growth in Early Elementary School: The Roles of Beginning Knowledge, Student Engagement, and Instruction. 4: Direct Instruction Ensures Success.

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

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowan school

The Hechinger Report

Students at Hunt Arts Elementary in Sioux City, Iowa integrate art into all of their lessons, a technique that ensures students still learning English have multiple ways of expressing what they know. Irving is home to the district’s dual language program, which launched in 2005. Census Bureau. And all means all.”.

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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. You are trying to take that from them.

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