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Education in the Era of COVID-19: Why Connection Matters

Digital Promise

For superintendents in the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , this is an opportunity to examine and reimagine their education systems under new constraints. So, we’ve been trying to advocate for those mobile hotspots. We also assumed that a lot of our educators also had [internet] access, and we provided devices.

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Speak Up 2020 Congressional Briefing: Release of the National Research Findings

edWeb.net

For the last seven months of 2020, school districts have gone through extreme changes regarding how learning is happening in a pandemic-induced educational environment. The Speak Up data revealed an increase in students’ access to mobile devices, tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks. Emerging Education Transformation.

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Educators Share What’s Working in Distance Learning

MIND Research Institute

Findley educators and staff distribute food and supplies to families. I was nervous about the loss of getting to see his teacher, but she, like so many educators across the country, has bridged the physical divide and is very present in our lives through Zoom class meetings, one-on-one Facetime lessons, and supportive social media messages.

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Do Online Degrees Lead to Jobs as Reliably as Traditional Ones?

Edsurge

Bourdieu studied ways power is transferred and maintained across generations, claiming that your college marks you, reproducing the class status you inherit from your family, with your social position frozen. In 2020, participants who met certain minimum requirements received an offer of a full-time job upon graduation.

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My Story, Our Impact: How BakerRipley Connects Families to Opportunities

Digital Promise

Even though both my parents were born in Mexico and never completed formal education, they understood the importance of a good education in the United States. As part of Facebook’s commitment to training one million adults by 2020 in digital skills across the U.S., I think about my parents often in my daily work.

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4 ways we can use edtech for engaging, high-quality learning experiences

eSchool News

Hate it or love – technology in education is here to stay. The conversation has quickly shifted from whether technology should be used in learning to how we can use it to improve learning and ensure that all students have access to high-quality educational experiences. Parents can feel it, and the numbers back them up.

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The Social Institute Unveils Curriculum for 4th Graders on SEL

eSchool News

The developmentally appropriate lessons come after requests from schools, and will focus on The Social Institute’s Seven Social Standards , which serve as a set of guiding principles for social media and tech use. Olympians) to be their best selves on all platforms, we help them “win the game of social media.”