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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. This change remained in appropriations language from FY 2007 through FY 2011.

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Why the Education Expenses are Rising and How to Deal with it?

Evelyn Learning

However, many students find themselves stuck on the cost and perceive it as the primary determinant of their access to education. A classroom has become an e-classroom, with tablets on each and every desk. Schools should focus on e-books more which will help to cut down the cost of books from the cost of tuition.

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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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