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

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

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Q&A: Steve Langford on Equalizing Student Access to the Web and Tech

EdTech Magazine

Fri, 11/08/2019 - 15:29. School districts can improve digital equity through investments, partnerships with businesses and national grants, says Steve Langford, CIO of Beaverton School District in Oregon. Langford recently talked with EdTech about the challenges of the digital divide and practical ways to overcome them.

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Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms

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Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms. Thu, 11/07/2019 - 15:06. EDTECH: What challenges related to digital equity are you facing in your district? We have a divide, whether it’s a socioeconomic divide or an opportunity divide. It’s a digital divide too. by Wylie Wong.

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Technology and Innovation as Paths to Educational Equity

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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and, in many ways, worsened the digital divide and other inequitable aspects of America’s education system. However, it also created opportunities to develop more equitable outcomes, based on the widespread switch to digital learning experiences and new education models. About the Moderator.

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Rally to Restore Philadelphia School Librarians: Responses, reflections, and resources

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In addition, all kindergarten through third grade classrooms have classroom libraries with age-appropriate reading materials, with all fourth and fifth grade classrooms gaining libraries by the end of the 2019-2020 school year. He discussed the digital divide with them. You mean we had this stuff available to us all along?

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On the Money: A Look at IT Leaders’ Budget Concerns

EdTech Magazine

Educators had to quickly adopt creative, and sometimes unfamiliar, ways of teaching and working from a distance, while existing issues like income inequality and the digital divide were pushed further into the spotlight. The coronavirus pandemic has changed education as we know it. Today, school leaders across the U.S.

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On the Money: A Look at IT Leaders’ Budget Concerns

EdTech Magazine

Educators had to quickly adopt creative, and sometimes unfamiliar, ways of teaching and working from a distance, while existing issues like income inequality and the digital divide were pushed further into the spotlight. The coronavirus pandemic has changed education as we know it. Today, school leaders across the U.S.