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NAEP ‘Nation’s Report Card’ Shows Steep Fall in Math Scores

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In fact, average fourth and eighth grade math and reading scores fell for most states between 2019 and 2022. In math, fourth graders fell five points nationally since 2019. In 2019, 31 percent were considered below basic level. That’s up from the 2019 results, which showed 34 percent below basic.

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The affordability gap is the biggest part of the digital divide

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Issues around broadband affordability disproportionately affect low-income, Black, and Latinx communities. However, 28.2

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Clear Hurdles to Foster True Innovation in K–12 Schools

EdTech Magazine

Mon, 11/25/2019 - 12:51. CoSN gathered feedback from experts across the country for its Driving K–12 Innovation series, examining technology trends in education and offering a deep dive into utilizing accelerators and overcoming hurdles. Here are things to know about the hurdles the 2019 board members identified. .

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Q&A: Tracy Smith on the Value of a Team Approach to Digital Equity

EdTech Magazine

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 12:34. Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, like many of the nation’s public school systems, is seeing increases in student poverty rates and English language proficiency — trends that could make any existing digital divides worse. Q&A: Tracy Smith on the Value of a Team Approach to Digital Equity.

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To Improve Education, We Need to Look at the Last 50 Years, Not Just the Last 18 Months

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The pandemic has accelerated existing trends in remote work, e-commerce and automation. While 2019 NAEP scores show just under half of white fourth-grade students were reading at or above proficiency, the number drops to 18 percent , or roughly one in six, for Black students. Several efforts are underway.

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The FCC Announced E-Rate Program Updates. Now What?

EdTech Magazine

Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections.

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The FCC Announced E-Rate Program Updates. Now What?

EdTech Magazine

Part of the previous modernization included the establishment of a budget system for Category Two funding, which covers schools’ internal connections and can cover switches, routers and access points as well as equipment needed to install broadband in schools. Incentivizing state support for “last-mile” broadband connections.

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