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OPINION: Free community college was never going to be enough

The Hechinger Report

This means help with the nontuition costs of college: books, laptops, housing, childcare, transportation, broadband and more. According to a June 2021 report by the Center for an Urban Future, thousands of CUNY students drop out each year because of financial barriers that make attending classes untenable.

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Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

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The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Dr. David R.

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How did edtech impact learning in 2023?

eSchool News

Moving beyond the tradition of looking for employees at university graduation days may provide a glimpse into how we can simplify job transfers between private industry and public education and provide more opportunities for non-traditional paths into education careers. Speak to those who have spent a lifetime in and out of education.

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Rural areas have been slow to connect to broadband. More public funding could speed things up

The Hechinger Report

But there is one essential that has always been scarce in this part of the country and that she couldn’t stock up on: Broadband access. Perry’s home isn’t wired for broadband access. Only 13 percent of New Mexico’s population has access to a low-price internet service plan, according to Broadband Now, a research group.

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. percent from 2017 to 2021.” ” (In Cleveland.). million in funding.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

In May 2021, Selma Casagranda, 18, and Annika Nilsson, 17, ride the Nilsson family ATV along Lost Creek — the stream that floods Nilsson’s neighborhood in Seward, Alaska, each fall — and point to where a house once stood before flood waters made the property useless. In 2014, the U.S. Credit: Young Kim for The Hechinger Report.

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