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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

Students can access learning materials outside of school. One of the most straightforward ways that technology contributes to equity in schools is ensuring that every student has access to learning materials, even outside of the classroom. Ensuring internet access outside of school. Here are some examples.

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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

So, it should not be surprising that only 27% of 8th and 12th-grade students earned a score of proficient in writing in the last report published in 2011 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). All of these aspects of writing benefit from dedicated class time, access to peer support, and teacher feedback.

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Equity and Access at the Core of Learning Without Tears’ Breakthrough Literacy Program, Phonics, Reading, and Me™

eSchool News

Cabin John MD – Early learning leader, Learning Without Tears, today affirmed that equity and access are at the core of Phonics, Reading, and Me —its K–3 supplemental literacy program designed to help students learn the skills they need to become proficient readers.

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Key Thoughts from 2011 Horizon Report

The 21st Century Principal

This past week, The New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative release the annual Horizon Report. To check out an online version of the Horizon Report 2011, see here. What does the report have to say to our current circumstances in educational technology? Educational Technology'

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

3] Engaged families report trusting teachers more and understand more clearly the role school plays in their child’s life.[2] Email is also an option accessible to most. 2011, March). 2011, June). Connecting individually with parents and caretakers increases not just the level of family involvement but also the quality.[3]

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PARENT VOICE: They call it ‘school choice,’ but you may not end up with much of a choice at all

The Hechinger Report

Arizona approved use of school choice vouchers, called Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, or ESAs , in 2011 on the promise that they were strictly for children with special needs who were not being adequately served in the public school system. I was not able to homeschool, so a reading tutor and his iPad became his only access to education.

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OPINION: The world is changing fast. Students need data science instruction ASAP

The Hechinger Report

Since 2011, national math test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, fell by 17 points for eighth graders and 10 points for fourth graders in data analysis, statistics and probability. The coursework should be challenging but accessible — “low floor, high ceiling.” and instead ask, “What’s next?”

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