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Announcing Digital Bridge Project to Support Distance Learning for SFUSD Students

Education Superhighway

On Friday, April 3rd, 2020, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a partnership between EducationSuperHighway, the 1Million Project Foundation and San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) to provide connectivity support for the thousands of students in San Francisco who lack home Internet access.

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This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit Is Hard to Describe. Here’s Our Best Attempt.

Edsurge

It’s led by a tandem of familiar faces in the edtech investing scene: Learn Capital partner-and-everyman Michael Staton, and Don Burton, who has built his own portfolio of dozens of startups through his time running the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator and EDGE Edtech Accelerator. Now about 20 companies have signed , too. Nate Davis, CEO of K12 Inc.,

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) This product is a piece of s**t,” one doctor said.

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