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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

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Tablets have surged from 26% to 55% usage as kids’ device of choice during car rides. Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year.

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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

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Technology invites us to move from engaged to empowered.” — From George Couros’ Innovator’s Mindset. The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. Our reading program re-instilled in them a love of reading, guided by technology.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

Ramos knew there were many kids like her, eager to keep up with school but lacking the technology to do so. You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds.

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

The Hechinger Report

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Kristin Tichenor, vice president for enrollment, Wentworth Institute of Technology. It’s not a law or a commandment on the tablets. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S. institutions “are competing head on against U.K.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

In the meantime, the middle schooler would be left to keep up with her schoolwork on her own, on a district-issued tablet that Curry says would often lock her granddaughter out. We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center.

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

Of those, only a handful require instruction on how to use or access contraception, according to data gathered by SIECUS , an organization that promotes comprehensive sexual health education policies. We provided laptops and tablets as well as ‘hot spots’ to all our girls who needed them,” Hall said. “We

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Hack Education Weekly News

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’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Via the Future of Privacy Forum : “ Law Enforcement Access to Student Records : What Is the Law?”