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Progress Made on K–12 Connectivity, But Work Remains

EdTech Magazine

Teachers and students are well on their way to fulfilling the mission of seeing 99 percent of all schools connected to next-generation broadband, according to the “2018 State of States Report” from EducationSuperHighway. million students and 1,356 schools lack basic infrastructure needed for digital learning, according to the report.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

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During the last pre-pandemic college application cycle, 2018-19, nearly 1.2 Overall, they found that 24 percent of students who started the Common App in 2018-19 did not complete it. Compared to applicants, non-submitters were also less likely to report having a parent with a college degree.

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OPINION: School leaders must come forward to help Latino students after the pandemic set back long-awaited progress

The Hechinger Report

Between 1995 and 2018, the percentage of Latinos with a high school diploma rose from 53 percent to 72 percent. And between 1976 and 2017, the Latino proportion of all students enrolled in college rose from 4 to 19 percent. Unfortunately, the pandemic has set us back several years. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Shae Hammond for The Hechinger Report. Across the country, some state lawmakers have begun to respond to the demands of student activists and Native advocacy organizations. In 2017, Montana became the first state in the nation to protect Native students’ right to wear regalia. At first she felt ashamed.

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When Colleges Sign ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Deals, Can Students and Professors Opt Out?

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That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S. Public Interest Research Group , a nonprofit advocacy organization that takes a skeptical view of publishers’ efforts to automatically bill students for pre-packaged commercial course materials. “We PIRG report, however, says the actual contracts tell a different story.

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Impero Software Announces New Version of its Flagship Product ? Impero Education Pro ? at ISTE 2018

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Chicago, June 24, 2018 – Impero Software, a leading provider of classroom management, network and online safety software to schools today announced the latest version of its award-winning product, Impero Education Pro V7. The company will showcase the new features of its award-winning product this week at ISTE 2018 in booth #630. “We

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Before assigning homework, ensure that students have a home

The Hechinger Report

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. in 2017. . in 2017. . Yet it gave itself a D on its report card earlier this year. percent, but was also 2.0

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