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Some rural states are cutting higher ed. One state is doing the opposite

The Hechinger Report

For now, the recent high school graduate is taking some education courses at the local community college. Like many rural Americans, the people here are place-bound, their educational choices constrained by geography as much as by cost. Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense.

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Nova Launches National Youth Science Communication Initiative: Nova Science Studio

eSchool News

The program will run now through June 2021. The program, NOVA’s first focused effort to create educational resources to teach science communication to teens, grew out of a pilot program during the 2018-2019 academic year in the Boston area that worked with nearly 30 students. A video trailer for the new initiative can be found here.

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Digital Transformation and Innovation in Rural School Districts

edWeb.net

These rural districts face the four significant challenges: broadband access, funding, people, and understanding the “why.” Broadband access has become more critical in the last year and a half than ever before. Wherever the location, funding is always a challenge for educational leaders. Challenges. Opportunities.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Analysis: Is Higher Ed Ready for the Tech Expectations of the Teens of 2022?

Edsurge

One overused catchphrase in education is that learning should be “student-centered.” But what if we took that to its logical conclusion and also made it the goal of our education technology predictions? Especially if those students are teens, within sight of leaving K-12 and moving into higher education. Yes, teens.

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How did edtech impact learning in 2023?

eSchool News

As we closed the door on 2022 , we approached 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage.

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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

eSchool News

This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install.

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