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Addressing the digital divide’s effects on education and the workforce

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million Americans who don’t have access to broadband internet. This often stems from the fact that rural areas are less likely to be wired for broadband services, therefore resulting in slower internet speeds. Although we’re seeing more companies getting back into the office, 26 percent of U.S.

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K–12's Digital Transformation Is Giving Libraries a Modern Makeover

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MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how libraries can use makerspaces to teach STEM! Libraries are an ideal spot for these STEM spaces , where students tinker, code, problem-solve and build. . With so many school districts going one-to-one with tablets or laptops , libraries are the new meeting space for tech-enabled teamwork.

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Where Diversity, Inclusion and Education Meet: A Conversation With Black Girls Code Founder, Kimberly Bryant

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Gender is just one part of the diversity problem confronting many technology companies today. As diversity reports from companies like Alphabet, Apple and Facebook reveal, the employee headcounts—especially in senior and executive positions—are overwhelmingly male and white. And I want to run a video game company.”.

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

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Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. Did companies fully deliver on their ConnectED promises? corporations, from Apple to Adobe.

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Automation Will Hit Young People Hardest. Can These Nonprofits Prepare Them for It?

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This includes girls, who were already underrepresented in STEM fields before the pandemic added new caretaking responsibilities for many of them that sidelined their education. And these are not just STEM jobs. And so we were able to identify those broadband issues. This is fashion design, culinary arts, urban city design.

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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. Since joining the ConnectEd initiative in 2014, Verizon has reached nearly 300,000 students across all 50 states and the District of Columbia with programs that provide technology and STEM education. Read more about Safari Books’ work.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. Beanstack helps educators and librarians encourage reading by making it easy to create and promote reading challenges for their communities.

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