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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Some studies suggest achievement gaps that exist beyond the third grade are difficult to close regardless of the intervention. Studies show that low-income and minority students are less likely to use the Internet or own a computer. All the data in the world is great, but it has to be pointed in the right direction.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Some studies suggest achievement gaps that exist beyond the third grade are difficult to close regardless of the intervention. Studies show that low-income and minority students are less likely to use the Internet or own a computer. “All the data in the world is great, but it has to be pointed in the right direction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Edsurge : “As Bootcamps Look for Novel Ways for Students to Pay For Their Studies, Many Try ‘ Deferred Tuition ’ ” Do note how student financial aid startups are still raising venture capital (and how now, I guess, ed-tech publications cover these stories when before they insisted these weren’t ed-tech).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A pending Connecticut law will now mandate that the University of Connecticut and the state’s four other public universities publicly release data on which transfer student credits they accept and which they reject.” ” Immigration and Education. ” Go, School Sports Team! .