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5 Ideas to Improve Rural Education in America

The CoolCatTeacher

Additionally, only 55% of rural America has broadband access versus 94% of urban America. This digital divide and poverty create unique challenges. ” In today’s show, we’ll discuss: Promoting more broadband access. ” In today’s show, we’ll discuss: Promoting more broadband access.

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

School leaders “should be keenly aware that this is not just a one-time thing,” said Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the nonprofit Learning Policy Institute and of California’s State Board of Education. “If The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

Digital Promise is a nonprofit authorized by Congress in 2008 as the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies through Section 802 of the Higher Education Opportunity Act. Award winning principal, and now Senior Fellow Eric Sheninger , helps to lead much of the digital work.