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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learningbroadband internet beyond school walls. If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If

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OPINION: Don’t despair — personalized learning offers promise of better learning for all students

The Hechinger Report

The National Assessment of Educational Progress reported steep drops in test scores , especially in mathematics. Those students were bright and hardworking, but they didn’t have access to the best resources or solutions proven to accelerate learning. What will help is treating broadband as essential as water and electricity.

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“If You Build It, They Will Come”: Why and How a Small Colorado District Upgraded its Network

Education Superhighway

Though for many school districts, slow download speeds in classrooms serve as the impetus for a network upgrade, there are many reasons district leaders strive to revamp their broadband infrastructure. Assessing Affordability and Beginning Modernization. Learn more about the school district upgrade process.

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Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

edWeb.net

Limited or no access to the internet has particularly undermined their remote science learning experiences. All students, Krehbiel emphasized, should have universal access to broadband internet. Principal among them is pairing professional learning with quality materials to advance teacher practice in the classroom. Assessment.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.). They showed some trepidation.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: July 11, 2017 Maine Charter School Moves Away From Online Learning Model | Maine Public → The Snow Pond Arts Academy charter school in Sidney had an ambitious goal — to be the first public school in Maine to use a model called “blended learning,” in which most of student work takes place in an online platform.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

Kajeet introduced Kajeet Private Wireless, its next-gen, cloud-based, private 5G and LTE platform delivering fast, secure, and reliable broadband connectivity for students in remote areas and communities underserved by public wireless options.

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