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Essential Guide to Digital Citizenship for CIPA and E-Rate

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E-rate is complicated. But complying with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) -- a requirement of E-rate -- doesn't have to be. It also provides an overview of E-rate, with answers to commonly asked questions about eligibility, services supported, and audits. What is E-rate?

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PROOF POINTS: Third graders struggling the most to recover in reading after the pandemic

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Children in kindergarten when the pandemic broke out in the spring of 2020 are now roughly eight years old and in third grade this 2022-23 school year. Learning to read well in elementary school matters. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. After children learn to read, they read to learn. It also matters to society as a whole.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

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In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. She had enough to manage with her evening bartending job, so she was seeking a simpler option.

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Another way to quantify inequality inside colleges

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caption here Chart from "Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation," Urban Institute, January 2020. Black Virginians were more likely to have grown up in poor neighborhoods and attended elementary, middle and high schools with other poor students, less experienced teachers and fewer resources.

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The science of catching up

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A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. But there were many reports of tutoring fraud and fiascos.

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‘It was the most unfair thing’: Disobedience, discipline and racial disparity

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Black students in Ohio are, on average, kicked out of classes for these offenses at four and half times the rate of white students. A Hechinger Report analysis across 20 states found that these types of categories are cited as justification in nearly a third of all suspension and expulsion records. Related: Hidden expulsions?

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COLUMN: Helping middle schoolers think about a future beyond the pandemic

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Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. A recent report found Indiana’s rates at their lowest in recent history. Just 59 percent of students here enroll after high school, a drop from a rate of 61 percent in 2018. College-going rates were even lower among Black, Hispanic and Latino, and low-income students.

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