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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. According to the agency’s 2018 Broadband Deployment Report , 88 percent of U.S. Funding requests came in $1.4

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The State of Computer Science Report Reveals Progress and Challenges in US Education

eSchool News

Key Takeaways: Remarkable Growth: The report reveals a substantial increase in the number of schools offering computer science courses across the country since 2018, demonstrating a growing recognition of the subject’s importance. Scroll down for some takeaways and data highlights. Across 35 states, 5.8%

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How Teacher Prep Programs Are Stepping Up Efforts to Recruit Students

Edsurge

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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Want to Humanize Classrooms? Take a Page From Youth Organizers.

Edsurge

The physical space of the retreat offered plentiful resources to help everyone meet their needs: flexible seating, break tables for arts and crafts, snacks and affirmation envelopes for each student to write and receive encouraging letters. The group of students decided they wanted to focus their advocacy on teacher practice.

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New NWEA Study Points to Instructional Strategies Driving Academic Growth

eSchool News

Explicitly teach academic vocabulary This in-depth look at instructional strategies driving academic growth is a continuation of an NWEA research initiative by Dr. Andy Hegedus who in 2018 released a novel study focusing on growth as a marker of school success rather than just meeting or exceeding proficiency.

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With New Scorecard, Group Seeks Promises That Colleges Won’t Use Facial Recognition on Campus

Edsurge

More than 40 colleges have said they do not use facial recognition technology on campus and stated they have no plans to do so, according to a new “ scorecard ” published Tuesday by an advocacy campaign titled Ban Facial Recognition on Campus. We have no current plans to use facial recognition technology in the future,” Samson said.

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OPINION: We need more problem solvers and critical thinkers for an increasingly complex world

The Hechinger Report

We set out to meet that challenge and better understand the extent to which personalized, competency-based learning could prepare our learners for an uncertain future. One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated.