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5 Ideas to Improve Rural Education in America

The CoolCatTeacher

This digital divide and poverty create unique challenges. She is an NASSP Digital Principal, and was a featured panelist & Principal of 1st rural school featured @ Digital Learning Day Live! Rural education has a significant majority of perpetually impoverished counties in America. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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Stunning: Research shows intense spike in children’s media use

eSchool News

New research has unearthed a dramatic increase in the number of young children who have their own tablet device–42 percent compared to 1 percent in 2011. Next page: Has the digital divide between high- and low-income families closed?).

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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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What Are the Implications of Distance Learning?

Education Superhighway

By the time students get to high school, it is critical that regardless of their location or their school’s budget, they can take advantage of as many learning opportunities as possible that prepare them for college and their future careers. In 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported that 1.99 exams that year alone.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

edWeb.net

First, districts need to address the digital divide/homework gap in meaningful ways. Even before the pandemic and the shift to distance education, learning extended beyond the classroom. Another aspect of the digital divide includes teachers. Vrain Valley School District (CO). SVVSD won the i3 Grant for $3.6

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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.

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What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

Edsurge

A focus on tackling the digital divide and resource inequities laid bare by the pandemic. At the start of the pandemic, Cardona’s office created the CT Learning Hub , which collected vetted digital learning resources for educators, parents and students. Teaching experience.

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