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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. That’s why Middletown is investing as much in professional learning for teachers as it is in devices and broadband. Ending Social Promotion.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. That’s why Middletown is investing as much in professional learning for teachers as it is in devices and broadband.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” Saint Francis High School invested $15,000 in the company back in 2012. ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.” ” More via The New York Times.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice. broadband privacy rules.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

But the struggling sector’s political giving is down since peaking in 2012,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible.