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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. Inside Castlemont’s media center in May 2021, Chromebook carts are completely empty. The homework gap isn’t new. People have to remember “the pandemic isn’t over,” she said.

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Going on the Offensive: Cyber Security Strategies for Schools

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He has successfully led the implementation of enterprise-level student information systems, instructional management and learning systems; data warehouse, security, infrastructure, bandwidth, iPads, Chromebooks, mobile devices, BYOT, 1:1 including shared and individual student devices, and ERP financial systems.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2013, 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot launched its MakerBot Academy with a goal “to put a MakerBot Desktop 3D Printer in every school in America.” Siegler: “ The End of the Library.” You can learn anything online, Siegler argued.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “Parent Advocacy Group Warns of Ed-Tech ‘Threats’ ” Via PC World : “Why Google plans to stop supporting your Chromebook after five years.” classrooms in 2013–14, according to Education Week Research Center analyses of the most recent wave of federal civil rights data.”

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

But many students live in threadbare mobile homes and modest, low-slung dwellings on the edge of town. And a state push to fund schools more equitably with another tax measure failed in 2013. On a recent afternoon inside a first-floor computer lab at Northridge High, efforts to bolster the students’ cyber prowess are on display.

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