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How can we close the digital divide?

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The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017). The report also emphasizes that students need to be given chances to actively, creatively use ed tech.

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

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Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it.

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

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And between 1976 and 2017, the Latino proportion of all students enrolled in college rose from 4 to 19 percent. Related: Survey reveals stark rich-poor divide in how U.S. Amanda Fernandez is CEO and founder of Latinos for Education ; Dr. Feliza Ortiz-Licon is chief policy and advocacy officer. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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

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How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

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Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. To meet this challenge, in the summer of 2020, Jhone Ebert, Nevada State’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced the launch of the Nevada Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC).

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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

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The school’s PTSA had zero assets or income as of 2018, according to a local public radio report. “I Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Related: A parent-led effort to close the digital divide. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The Horizon Report. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.”

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