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4 things innovative districts do to improve graduation rates

eSchool News

Yet every student in Piedmont is given a laptop in school and to take home and, through partnerships developed by the district, can access free or low-cost broadband 24/7. Early college access for later success. Check out this inspiring video of CAPS students changing the life of a disabled student.).

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

He spends a couple hours by himself, making snacks, doing his homework, and playing video games. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. When Karim returns home from school, Celeste has already left for work. Ending Social Promotion.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

He spends a couple hours by himself, making snacks, doing his homework, and playing video games. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. When Karim returns home from school, Celeste has already left for work.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The New York Times : “ Penn State Student’s Dying Hours Play Out in Courtroom Video.” Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. How has online video changed our expectations of that? broadband privacy rules.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. Twitter announced big layoffs this week – 9% of its staff – and said it would shutter its video app Vine. Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible.