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The Do’s and Don’ts of Bringing Personalized Learning Into Rural Schools

Edsurge

Could personalized learning and the use of technology fundamentally change rural student outcomes? In rural districts, children and youth face profound obstacles—geographic isolation and long bus rides to school, frustratingly slow internet connections, limited course options, and low college-going rates. How It Could Help.

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98 Percent of U.S. Public School Districts Connected to High-Speed Broadband, But 2.3 Million Students Still Left Behind

Education Superhighway

EducationSuperHighway today released its annual State of the States report highlighting the major progress that has been achieved to connect nearly every public school classroom to high-speed broadband. million students across the nation who lack access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning. million students and 2.6

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

Edsurge

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Digital equity bill targets ‘homework gap’

eSchool News

would call for a national study on what is known as the “Homework Gap” and would support pilot programs to extend digital learning opportunities for students when they are not in the classroom. The proposed legislation received support across the ed-tech industry after it was announced. David McKinley (R-W.Va.),

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

The emergence of new industrial technologies has caused such rapid changes in manufacturing that employers are in constant need of workers who are technically advanced, process savvy, and natural problem solvers. Spectrum has eligible solutions that support long-term technology plans–no matter where learning takes place.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 14 Edition)

Doug Levin

It could theoretically enable privacy-first personalized learning without the need to share student data with cloud providers. Tagged on: April 3, 2017 Plan to upgrade internet in public schools died even after push from governor, others | The Advocate → My questions: What was the telecom industry stance on this initiative?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 14 Edition)

Doug Levin

It could theoretically enable privacy-first personalized learning without the need to share student data with cloud providers. Tagged on: April 3, 2017 Plan to upgrade internet in public schools died even after push from governor, others | The Advocate → My questions: What was the telecom industry stance on this initiative?

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