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

Doug Levin

Guidance on the Enhancing Education Through Technology (Ed Tech) Program: Funds Made Available Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (July 2009). FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). FY 2009 $269,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). FY 2010 $100,000,000.

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How to Promote Additive Bilingualism over Subtractive Bilingualism in the Classroom

Waterford

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2006, 9(6), 695-712. Theory and Research in Education, 2009, 7(2), pp. Psychological Science, 2010, 21(3), pp. Review of Educational Research, 2010, 80(2), pp. Neurology, November 2010, 75(19), pp. Bamford, J.W., and Mizokawa, D.T. and Deveau, K.

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How the last recession affected higher education. Will history repeat?

The Hechinger Report

million students in the fall of 2010. The 2009 Recovery Act increased the amount of Pell Grants to low-income students to more than $5,000 per year and expanded the number of students who were eligible for it. Completion rates declined for students who enrolled in college during 2008, 2009 and 2010.

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The Importance of Developing Spatial Skills for STEM Success

MIND Research Institute

A 2009 Vanderbilt University review in the Journal of Educational Psychology looked at over 50 years of longitudinal research on spatial ability , and concluded that “spatial ability plays a critical role in developing expertise in STEM.” The Science of Spatial-Temporal Mathematics. Spatial Temporal White Paper. References. Caswell, B.,

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The Ox years are: 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021 3. 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022) are associated with these attributes: courage, ambition, enthusiasm, generosity, self-confidence, commitment to help others, altruism, sociability, and audacity. If you were born in the Rooster year (e.,

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Educators as Purveyors of Hope

User Generated Education

Hope is positively associated with perceived competence and self-worth (Marques, Pais-Ribeiro, & Lopez, 2009) and negatively associated with symptoms of depression (Snyder, Hoza, et al., Gilman, Dooley, & Florell, 2006). High-hope students typically are more optimistic (Snyder, Hoza, et al., 1991; Snyder et al.,

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with 'e's

One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). Selwyn counsels: ‘Whilst inter-generational tensions and con?icts