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5 Things We’ve Learned About Virtual School During the Pandemic

MindShift

That was before 2020. The number has fluctuated as cases rise across the country, but throughout this fall pandemic semester, between 40% and 60% of students have been enrolled in districts that offer only remote learning, according to a tracker maintained by the company Burbio. Here are five lessons learned so far: 1.

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

Related: Can high-poverty urban districts like Philadelphia close the digital divide? The new Vaux welcomed its first class of 126 ninth-graders in September; it plans to serve 504 students by 2020. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Those connections have proven valuable.

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How did edtech impact learning in 2023?

eSchool News

Vrain Valley Schools 2021 and 2022 were the years of urgency and near-term decisions to ensure learning continued through the pandemic. However, recent developments with various social media platforms have led some long-time users to consider leaving them altogether.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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